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▪ I. cackling, vbl. n.|ˈkæklɪŋ|
[see -ing1.]
1. The crying of a hen on laying an egg; also that of a goose, or other fowl.
c1374Chaucer Parl. Foules 562 Tho began The goose to speke, and in her cakelinge, She said. 1562J. Heywood Prov. & Epigr. (1867) 110 The cocke praide hir, hir cacklyng to seace. 1709Tatler No. 133 ⁋1 The cackling of cranes, when they invade an army of pigmies. 1821Clare Vill. Minstr. II. 70 Constant cacklings of new-laying hens.
2. Loud idle talk or chatter: sometimes with immediate reference to the cry of a hen on laying.
1530Palsgr. 202/2 Cackelyng, bablyng, cacquet. 1601Dent Path-w. Heauen 171 They spend the rest of the day..in..cackling, prating and gossipping. 1860Gen. P. Thompson Audi Alt. III. cxix. 61 This cackling about improved arms is not worthy of well-informed statesmen. 1866Geo. Eliot F. Holt (1868) 161 And when it takes to cackling, will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.
▪ II. ˈcackling, ppl. a.
[see -ing2.]
That cackles.
a1225[see cackle n. 1]. 1567Harman Caveat 86 She hath a Cacling chete [i.e. a hen]. 1622Fletcher Beggar's B. v. i, Or surprising a boor's ken for grunting-cheats? Or cackling-cheats? 1674Flatman Belly God 29 Pluck of[f] the cackling head. 1794Mrs. Piozzi Synon. II. 174 Ciarlatano means a prating, cackling creature, and answers to our term Quack. 1841Catlin N. Amer. Ind. (1844) II. liv. 182 Some hundreds of cackling women and girls bathing. |