cackle

Speech parts

1. cackle - Noun

2. cackle - Verb

Meaning

To make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does.

To laugh with a broken noise, like the cackling of a hen or a goose; to giggle.

To talk in a silly manner; to prattle.

The sharp broken noise made by a goose or by a hen that has laid an egg.

Idle talk; silly prattle.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

yak chatter yack yakety-yak crow coo roe bray twitter moo gabby yelp jabber caw patter
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Antonyms

bay pule howl squall bawl cry
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Hypernyms

speak mouth talk emit cry laugh

Hyponyms

prate blether prattle gaggle chin music idle talk

Phrases with the word

cut the cackle

Derivatives

cackled cackling

Anagrams

cackel

Examples

Hungry rooster don't cackle w'en he fine a wum. Joel Chandler Harris

To tell a woman not to talk too much was like telling Jesse James not to carry a gun, or a hen not to cackle. Malcolm X

Not to say people shouldn't get rich from art. I adore the alchemy wherein artists who cast a complex spell make rich people give them their money. (Just writing it makes me cackle.) But too many artists have been making money without magic. Jerry Saltz

If the hen did not cackle no one would know what she had been about. Danish Proverb

You cackle in our place but you lay your eggs at someone else's place. Georgian Proverb

He who spends a night with a chicken will cackle in the morning. Tunisian Proverb

Close letter words and terms

cackhanded cackhandedly cackhandedness cackle bladder cackle fruit cackle-fart