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cackle

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cackle in WordNet English dictionary

noun
  1. a loud laugh suggestive of a hen's cackle
    cackle 
  2. noisy talk
    yak  yack  yakety-yak  chatter  cackle 
  3. the sound made by a hen after laying an egg
    cackle 
verb
  1. emit a loud, unpleasant kind of laughing
    cackle 
  2. squawk shrilly and loudly, characteristic of hens
    cackle 
  3. talk or utter in a cackling manner
    "The women cackled when they saw the movie star step out of the limousine"
    cackle 
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