Dictionary definition · cackle
noun
- the sound made by a hen after laying an egg
- noisy talk
- a loud laugh suggestive of a hen's cackle
verb
- talk or utter in a cackling manner"The women cackled when they saw the movie star step out of the limousine"
- squawk shrilly and loudly, characteristic of hens
- make a noise characteristic of a goose"Cackling geese"
- emit a loud, unpleasant kind of laughing
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Source: Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).