cacklen.

/ˈkak(ə)l/

Etymology: < cackle v.¹: compare Swedish kackel in same sense.

1. A cackler. (Or ? adj. cackling.)

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the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > chatting or chat > one who chats or gossips

kikelot?c1225

mathelild?c1225

cacklec1230

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trattlerc1485

flimmerc1530

tattler1549

chatter1561

gossip1566

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tittle-tattle1571

chatmate1599

fiddle-faddle1602

tittle-tattler1602

confabulator1659

twittle-twat1662

shat1709

prittle-prattle1725

tattle-basket1736

small-talker1762

nash-gab1816

granny1861

windjammer1880

schmoozer1899

scuttlebutt gossip1901

wag-tongue1902

coffee-houser1907

kibitzer1925

clatfarta1930

natterer1959

yacker1959

rapper1967

village gossip1972

c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 35 Folhið..nawt te cakele [?c1225 Cleo. chakele; a1250 Nero kakele; a1250 Titus kakelinde] eue.

1888 N.E.D. at Cackle Mod. colloq. or dial. What a cackle she is!

2. Cackling; as of a hen or goose.

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the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > [noun] > member of subfamily Anserinea (goose) > sound made by

cacklingc1374

gagglingc1440

keak1600

cackle1674

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honk1813

the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > hen or cock > [noun] > hen > sound made by

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chuckc1405

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1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge To Rdr. Dinn'd & grated with the Cackle.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis viii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 460 The Silver Goose..by her Cackle, sav'd the State.

1842 Ld. Tennyson Goose iii, in Poems (new ed.) I. 230 The goose let fall a golden egg With cackle and with clatter.

a. figurative. Stupid loquacity, silly chatter. Colloquial phrase cut the cackle (and come to the horses): stop talking (and get to the heart of the matter, the real business); hence cackle-cutting n. and adj.

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the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > [noun] > chatter

chirma800

clappingc1386

glavera1400

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clackc1440

blabc1460

clattera1500

babble?a1525

babblery1532

pratery1533

clitter-clatter1535

by-talk?1551

prattle1555

prittle-prattle1556

twittle-twattle1565

cacquet1567

prate?1574

prattlement1579

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gibble-gabble1600

gabble1602

twattlea1639

tolutiloquence1656

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chit-chat1710

chatter-chitter1711

chitter-chatter1712

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rattle1748

gum1751

mag1778

gabber1780

gammon1781

gash1787

chattery1789

gabber1792

whitter-whatter1805

yabble1808

clacket1812

talky-talky1812

potter1818

yatter1827

blue streak1830

gabblement1831

psilologya1834

chin-music1834

patter1841

jaw1842

chatter1851

brabble1861

tongue-work1866

yacker1882

talkee1885

chelp1891

chattermag1895

whitter1897

burble1898

yap1907

clatfart1913

jive1928

logorrhœa1935

waffle1937

yackety-yacking1953

yack1958

yackety-yack1958

motormouth1976

the mind > language > speech > taciturnity or reticence > taciturnity [phrase] > stop speaking about trivial matters

cut the cackle (and come to the horses)1889

1676 A. Marvell Mr. Smirke sig. D^v Bedawb'd with..Addle Eggs of the Animadverters own Cackle.

1859 Ld. Tennyson Enid in Idylls of King 15 The rustic cackle of your bourg.

1862 G. W. Thornbury Life J. M. W. Turner I. 262 The cackle about Claude.

1889 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang I. 216/1 The great Ducrow..was wont to apostrophise the performers in his equestrian drama after this fashion: ‘Come, I say, you mummers, cut your cackle, and come to the 'osses!’

1899 Westm. Gaz. 27 June 2/1 Nine-tenths would be delighted if the famous phrase about ‘cutting the cackle’ were acted upon.

1919 G. B. Shaw in Shaw on Theatre (1958) 124 Out with the lot of them, then: let us cut the cackle and come to the 'osses.

1921 G. B. Shaw Back to Methuselah v. 239 Cut the cackle; and come to the synthetic couple.

1930 W. Lewis Apes of God xii. vi. 469 Cut the cackle Arthur—I'm pressed for time!

1957 Economist 28 Dec. 1106/1 Nor..will delegates reassemble..in September after parting only in March—a decidedly cackle-cutting feature of this last session.

1958 J. Wain Contenders ix. 193 ‘You must be wondering what all this is about,’ Ned put in, adopting his money-man's tone of directness and cackle-cutting.

b. A short spasmodic laugh, a chuckle.

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the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > types of laughter > [noun] > chuckling > instance of

chuckle1743

keckle1820

cackle1856

chortle1903

1856 C. J. Lever Martins of Cro' Martin 410 ‘She hasn't got a nice day for pleasuring!’ said the Jew, with a vulgar cackle.

4. cackle-berry n. slang (originally U.S.) an egg.

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the world > food and drink > food > eggs > [noun] > hen's egg

egg805

hen eggeOE

cockneyc1390

hen fruit1844

cackle-berry1916

1916 Dial. Notes 4 272 Pass the cackleberries.

1925 G. P. Krapp Eng. Lang. in Amer. I. v. 321 Sometimes slang is complicated in its suggestiveness, like cackleberry, meaning egg.

1962 John o' London's 14 June 571/1 A cackle berry is an egg [in naut. slang].

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online March 2020).

cacklev.¹

/ˈkak(ə)l/

Forms: Middle English kakelen, cakelen, Middle English cackle(n, Middle English cakele, cakelyn, kakyl, kaykylle, Middle English–1500s cakle, 1500s cakyll, cackyll, cackel, cacle, 1600s cakell, 1800s English regional cuckle, 1500s– cackle; Scottish1500s kekkyl, kekell, 1600s kekcle: see also keckle v.¹

Etymology: Early Middle English cakelen : corresponding to Dutch kakelen , Low German kâkeln , Swedish kackla , Danish kagle ; compare also German gackeln , Dutch gaggelen , and gaggle v. The evidence does not make it certain to what extent the word has arisen separately in different languages in imitation of the animal sounds, or has been adopted from one language into another. The word may have been West Germanic or at least Saxon: but the English may also have been from Scandinavian.

a. intransitive. To make a noise as a hen, especially after laying an egg; also to make a noise as a goose (which is more specifically to gaggle v.).

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the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > [verb (intransitive)] > make sound (of goose)

cacklec1230

gaggle1399

keak1545

gabble1712

honk1813

cank1879

honk-honk1896

the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > hen or cock > [verb (intransitive)] > make sound (of hen)

clockOE

cacklec1230

chuckc1405

keckle1513

cluck1580

chuckle1690

clack1712

clucker1904

c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 36 Þe hen hwen ha haueð ileid ne con bute cakelin.

1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 264 Somtime cacleth as a hen.

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 58 Cakelyn of hennys, gracillo.

c1470 Hors, Shepe, & G. (1822) 17 The ghoos may cakle.

1483 Cath. Angl. 200/1 To kaykylle (A. kakylle), gracillare.

c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 31 Quhilk gart the hennis kekkyl.

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Cakle lyke a henne, glocio.

1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice v. i. 105 If she should sing by day when euery Goose is cackling .

1660 W. Secker Nonsuch Professor 43 Some persons are like hens that after laying must be cackling.

a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) II. 139 Like..a Wildgoose always cackling when he is upon the Wing.

1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller II. 253 A hen could not cackle but she was on the alert to secure the new-laid egg.

1884 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester (1886) s.v. A hen is said to cuckle when she tells us she has laid an egg.

b. Said of the chattering of other birds, esp. crows, jackdaws, magpies, and starlings. Obsolete.

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the world > animals > birds > sound or bird defined by > [verb (intransitive)] > cluck or cackle

cackle?c1225

keckle1513

chacka1522

shuckle1598

gallow1825

keck1844

the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > larger song birds > [verb (intransitive)] > make sound (of starling)

cackle?c1225

the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > larger song birds > family Corvidae (crow) > [verb (intransitive)] > make sound (of crow)

cackle?c1225

cawa1586

kaak1606

crawa1658

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 71 An kikelot þet kakeleð al þet ha sið.

1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique 117 b Some cackels lyke a henne or a Jack dawe.

1559 D. Lindsay Test. Papyngo l. 94 in Wks. (1931) I Bark lyk ane Dog, and kekell lyke ane Ka.

1635 G. Markham Eng. Husbandman (ed. 2) i. i. iii. 13 If Crowes flocke much together, and cakell and talke.

1676 T. Hobbes tr. Homer Iliads xvii. 275 A Cloud of Starelings cackle when they fly.

2. figurative. Said of persons:

a. To be full of noisy and inconsequent talk; to talk glibly, be loquacious, prate, chatter.

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the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > be talkative [verb (intransitive)] > talk excessively or chatter

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babblea1250

chattera1250

clacka1250

janglea1300

ganglec1300

clapc1315

mumblec1350

blabberc1375

carp1377

tatterc1380

garre1382

rattlec1400

clatter1401

chimec1405

gabc1405

pattera1450

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languetc1450

pratec1460

chat1483

jabber1499

clittera1529

cackle1530

prattle1532

blatter1533

blab1535

to run on pattens1546

tattle1547

prittle-prattlea1555

trattlea1555

tittle-tattle1556

quiddlea1566

brabble1570

clicket1570

twattle1573

gabble1574

prittle1583

to like to hear oneself speak, talk1597

to word it1612

deblaterate1623

tongue1624

twitter1630

snatter1647

oversay1656

whiffle1706

to gallop away1711

splutter1728

gob1770

gibble-gabble1775

palaver1781

to talk (etc.) nineteen to the dozen1785

gammon1789

witter1808

yabble1808

yaff1808

mag1810

chelp1820

tongue-pad1825

yatter1825

potter1826

chipper1829

jaw-jaw1831

buzz1832

to shoot off one's mouth1864

yawp1872

blate1878

chin1884

yap1888

spiel1894

to talk (also lie, swear, etc.) a blue streak1895

to run off at the mouth1908

chattermag1909

clatfart1913

to talk a streak1915

to run one's mouth1916

natter1942

ear-bash1944

rabbit1950

yack1950

yacker1961

to eat parrot head (also bottom)1965

yacket1969

to twat on1996

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 473/1 Howe these women cackyll nowe they have dyned.

1599 Master Broughtons Lett. Answered ix. 34 Cease..cackling of the vnlearnednes of thy betters.

1861 W. M. Thackeray Four Georges iii. 150 The equerries and women in waiting..cackled over their tea.

b. To talk loudly or fussily about a petty achievement, like a hen after laying an egg.

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the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > boast [verb (intransitive)]

yelpc888

kebc1315

glorify1340

to make avauntc1340

boast1377

brag1377

to shake boastc1380

glorya1382

to make (one's) boastc1385

crackc1470

avaunt1471

glaster1513

voust1513

to make (one's or a) vauntc1515

jet?1521

vaunt?1521

crowa1529

rail1530

devauntc1540

brave1549

vaunt1611

thrasonize1619

vapour1629

ostentate1670

goster1673

flourish1674

rodomontade1681

taper1683

gasconade1717

stump1721

rift1794

mang1819

snigger1823

gab1825

cackle1847

to talk horse1855

skite1857

to blow (also U.S. toot) one's own horn1859

to shoot off one's mouth1864

spreadeagle1866

swank1874

bum1877

to sound off1918

woof1934

to shoot a line1941

to honk off1952

to mouth off1958

blow-

1847 B. Disraeli Tancred I. ii. v. 159 The peers cackle as if they had laid an egg.

1860 T. P. Thompson Audi Alteram Partem (1861) III. cxix. 59 It is also the business of a sensible government, not to cackle on its discoveries.

c. To chuckle, ‘to laugh, to giggle’ (Johnson).

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the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > types of laughter > laugh in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > chuckle

keckle1513

chuck1598

shuckle1598

cackle1712

chuckle1803

chortle1871

1712 J. Arbuthnot John Bull Still in Senses x. 45 Then Nic. grin'd, cackled and laugh'd.

3. transitive. To utter with or express by cackling.

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the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > utter in a chattering manner [verb (transitive)]

cacklec1230

chattera1250

clapc1315

jangle1377

blabberc1380

trattlea1425

pratea1475

chat1483

prattlea1500

prittle-prattlea1555

gabble1566

blatter?1567

gaggle1577

clacket1579

knap1581

prittle1583

clack1590

volley1591

tattle1593

prabble1603

out-babble1649

garrulate1656

gabber?1661

chime1697

spiel1904

chitter-chatter1928

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > other vocal sounds > [verb (transitive)] > express by cackling

cacklec1230

c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 36 Ȝef hit nere icakelet.

1857 D. Livingstone Missionary Trav. S. Afr. vi. 114 Any man who..cackles forth a torrent of vocables.

1880 W. D. Howells Undiscovered Country i. 28 The ladies..now rose..and joyously cackled satisfaction.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

cacklev.²

Forms: 1700s cackle, 1800s kackle.

Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: keckle v.²

Etymology: Variant of keckle v.²Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈcackle.

Nautical.

‘To cover a cable spirally with 3-inch old rope to protect it from chafe in the hawse hole’ (Adm. Smyth).

ΚΠ

1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson iii. ii. 318 They [sc. cables] were cackled twenty fathom from the anchors.

1883 Man. Seamanship for Boys' Training Ships Royal Navy (1886) 128 The cable is then served, or, as is termed, kackled with 2½-in. rounding, for the distance of 9 ft. from the eye.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

n.c1230

v.¹?c1225

v.²1748

单词	cackle
释义	cacklen. /ˈkak(ə)l/ Etymology: < cackle v.¹: compare Swedish kackel in same sense. 1. A cackler. (Or ? adj. cackling.) ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > chatting or chat > one who chats or gossips kikelot?c1225 mathelild?c1225 cacklec1230 tutelerc1385 tittererc1400 roukera1425 trattlerc1485 flimmerc1530 tattler1549 chatter1561 gossip1566 gossiper1568 tittle-tattle1571 chatmate1599 fiddle-faddle1602 tittle-tattler1602 confabulator1659 twittle-twat1662 shat1709 prittle-prattle1725 tattle-basket1736 small-talker1762 nash-gab1816 granny1861 windjammer1880 schmoozer1899 scuttlebutt gossip1901 wag-tongue1902 coffee-houser1907 kibitzer1925 clatfarta1930 natterer1959 yacker1959 rapper1967 village gossip1972 c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 35 Folhið..nawt te cakele [?c1225 Cleo. chakele; a1250 Nero kakele; a1250 Titus kakelinde] eue. 1888 N.E.D. at Cackle Mod. colloq. or dial. What a cackle she is! 2. Cackling; as of a hen or goose. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > [noun] > member of subfamily Anserinea (goose) > sound made by cacklingc1374 gagglingc1440 keak1600 cackle1674 canking1741 honk1813 the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > hen or cock > [noun] > hen > sound made by cacklingc1374 chuckc1405 clocking1440 clucking1577 chucking1598 cackle1674 cluck1697 chuckle1774 clock1825 1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge To Rdr. Dinn'd & grated with the Cackle. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis viii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 460 The Silver Goose..by her Cackle, sav'd the State. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Goose iii, in Poems (new ed.) I. 230 The goose let fall a golden egg With cackle and with clatter. 3. a. figurative. Stupid loquacity, silly chatter. Colloquial phrase cut the cackle (and come to the horses): stop talking (and get to the heart of the matter, the real business); hence cackle-cutting n. and adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > [noun] > chatter chirma800 clappingc1386 glavera1400 clapa1420 clackc1440 blabc1460 clattera1500 babble?a1525 babblery1532 pratery1533 clitter-clatter1535 by-talk?1551 prattle1555 prittle-prattle1556 twittle-twattle1565 cacquet1567 prate?1574 prattlement1579 babblement1595 gibble-gabble1600 gabble1602 twattlea1639 tolutiloquence1656 pratement1657 gaggle1668 leden1674 cackle1676 twit-twat1677 clash1685 chit-chat1710 chatter-chitter1711 chitter-chatter1712 palavering1732 hubble-bubble1735 palaver1748 rattle1748 gum1751 mag1778 gabber1780 gammon1781 gash1787 chattery1789 gabber1792 whitter-whatter1805 yabble1808 clacket1812 talky-talky1812 potter1818 yatter1827 blue streak1830 gabblement1831 psilologya1834 chin-music1834 patter1841 jaw1842 chatter1851 brabble1861 tongue-work1866 yacker1882 talkee1885 chelp1891 chattermag1895 whitter1897 burble1898 yap1907 clatfart1913 jive1928 logorrhœa1935 waffle1937 yackety-yacking1953 yack1958 yackety-yack1958 motormouth1976 the mind > language > speech > taciturnity or reticence > taciturnity [phrase] > stop speaking about trivial matters cut the cackle (and come to the horses)1889 1676 A. Marvell Mr. Smirke sig. D^v Bedawb'd with..Addle Eggs of the Animadverters own Cackle. 1859 Ld. Tennyson Enid in Idylls of King 15 The rustic cackle of your bourg. 1862 G. W. Thornbury Life J. M. W. Turner I. 262 The cackle about Claude. 1889 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang I. 216/1 The great Ducrow..was wont to apostrophise the performers in his equestrian drama after this fashion: ‘Come, I say, you mummers, cut your cackle, and come to the 'osses!’ 1899 Westm. Gaz. 27 June 2/1 Nine-tenths would be delighted if the famous phrase about ‘cutting the cackle’ were acted upon. 1919 G. B. Shaw in Shaw on Theatre (1958) 124 Out with the lot of them, then: let us cut the cackle and come to the 'osses. 1921 G. B. Shaw Back to Methuselah v. 239 Cut the cackle; and come to the synthetic couple. 1930 W. Lewis Apes of God xii. vi. 469 Cut the cackle Arthur—I'm pressed for time! 1957 Economist 28 Dec. 1106/1 Nor..will delegates reassemble..in September after parting only in March—a decidedly cackle-cutting feature of this last session. 1958 J. Wain Contenders ix. 193 ‘You must be wondering what all this is about,’ Ned put in, adopting his money-man's tone of directness and cackle-cutting. b. A short spasmodic laugh, a chuckle. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > types of laughter > [noun] > chuckling > instance of chuckle1743 keckle1820 cackle1856 chortle1903 1856 C. J. Lever Martins of Cro' Martin 410 ‘She hasn't got a nice day for pleasuring!’ said the Jew, with a vulgar cackle. 4. cackle-berry n. slang (originally U.S.) an egg. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > eggs > [noun] > hen's egg egg805 hen eggeOE cockneyc1390 hen fruit1844 cackle-berry1916 1916 Dial. Notes 4 272 Pass the cackleberries. 1925 G. P. Krapp Eng. Lang. in Amer. I. v. 321 Sometimes slang is complicated in its suggestiveness, like cackleberry, meaning egg. 1962 John o' London's 14 June 571/1 A cackle berry is an egg [in naut. slang]. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online March 2020). cacklev.¹ /ˈkak(ə)l/ Forms: Middle English kakelen, cakelen, Middle English cackle(n, Middle English cakele, cakelyn, kakyl, kaykylle, Middle English–1500s cakle, 1500s cakyll, cackyll, cackel, cacle, 1600s cakell, 1800s English regional cuckle, 1500s– cackle; Scottish1500s kekkyl, kekell, 1600s kekcle: see also keckle v.¹ Etymology: Early Middle English cakelen : corresponding to Dutch kakelen , Low German kâkeln , Swedish kackla , Danish kagle ; compare also German gackeln , Dutch gaggelen , and gaggle v. The evidence does not make it certain to what extent the word has arisen separately in different languages in imitation of the animal sounds, or has been adopted from one language into another. The word may have been West Germanic or at least Saxon: but the English may also have been from Scandinavian. 1. a. intransitive. To make a noise as a hen, especially after laying an egg; also to make a noise as a goose (which is more specifically to gaggle v.). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > [verb (intransitive)] > make sound (of goose) cacklec1230 gaggle1399 keak1545 gabble1712 honk1813 cank1879 honk-honk1896 the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > hen or cock > [verb (intransitive)] > make sound (of hen) clockOE cacklec1230 chuckc1405 keckle1513 cluck1580 chuckle1690 clack1712 clucker1904 c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 36 Þe hen hwen ha haueð ileid ne con bute cakelin. 1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 264 Somtime cacleth as a hen. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 58 Cakelyn of hennys, gracillo. c1470 Hors, Shepe, & G. (1822) 17 The ghoos may cakle. 1483 Cath. Angl. 200/1 To kaykylle (A. kakylle), gracillare. c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 31 Quhilk gart the hennis kekkyl. 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Cakle lyke a henne, glocio. 1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice v. i. 105 If she should sing by day when euery Goose is cackling . View more context for this quotation 1660 W. Secker Nonsuch Professor 43 Some persons are like hens that after laying must be cackling. a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) II. 139 Like..a Wildgoose always cackling when he is upon the Wing. 1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller II. 253 A hen could not cackle but she was on the alert to secure the new-laid egg. 1884 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester (1886) s.v. A hen is said to cuckle when she tells us she has laid an egg. b. Said of the chattering of other birds, esp. crows, jackdaws, magpies, and starlings. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > sound or bird defined by > [verb (intransitive)] > cluck or cackle cackle?c1225 keckle1513 chacka1522 shuckle1598 gallow1825 keck1844 the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > larger song birds > [verb (intransitive)] > make sound (of starling) cackle?c1225 the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > larger song birds > family Corvidae (crow) > [verb (intransitive)] > make sound (of crow) cackle?c1225 cawa1586 kaak1606 crawa1658 ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 71 An kikelot þet kakeleð al þet ha sið. 1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique 117 b Some cackels lyke a henne or a Jack dawe. 1559 D. Lindsay Test. Papyngo l. 94 in Wks. (1931) I Bark lyk ane Dog, and kekell lyke ane Ka. 1635 G. Markham Eng. Husbandman (ed. 2) i. i. iii. 13 If Crowes flocke much together, and cakell and talke. 1676 T. Hobbes tr. Homer Iliads xvii. 275 A Cloud of Starelings cackle when they fly. 2. figurative. Said of persons: a. To be full of noisy and inconsequent talk; to talk glibly, be loquacious, prate, chatter. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > be talkative [verb (intransitive)] > talk excessively or chatter chavel?c1225 babblea1250 chattera1250 clacka1250 janglea1300 ganglec1300 clapc1315 mumblec1350 blabberc1375 carp1377 tatterc1380 garre1382 rattlec1400 clatter1401 chimec1405 gabc1405 pattera1450 smattera1450 languetc1450 pratec1460 chat1483 jabber1499 clittera1529 cackle1530 prattle1532 blatter1533 blab1535 to run on pattens1546 tattle1547 prittle-prattlea1555 trattlea1555 tittle-tattle1556 quiddlea1566 brabble1570 clicket1570 twattle1573 gabble1574 prittle1583 to like to hear oneself speak, talk1597 to word it1612 deblaterate1623 tongue1624 twitter1630 snatter1647 oversay1656 whiffle1706 to gallop away1711 splutter1728 gob1770 gibble-gabble1775 palaver1781 to talk (etc.) nineteen to the dozen1785 gammon1789 witter1808 yabble1808 yaff1808 mag1810 chelp1820 tongue-pad1825 yatter1825 potter1826 chipper1829 jaw-jaw1831 buzz1832 to shoot off one's mouth1864 yawp1872 blate1878 chin1884 yap1888 spiel1894 to talk (also lie, swear, etc.) a blue streak1895 to run off at the mouth1908 chattermag1909 clatfart1913 to talk a streak1915 to run one's mouth1916 natter1942 ear-bash1944 rabbit1950 yack1950 yacker1961 to eat parrot head (also bottom)1965 yacket1969 to twat on1996 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 473/1 Howe these women cackyll nowe they have dyned. 1599 Master Broughtons Lett. Answered ix. 34 Cease..cackling of the vnlearnednes of thy betters. 1861 W. M. Thackeray Four Georges iii. 150 The equerries and women in waiting..cackled over their tea. b. To talk loudly or fussily about a petty achievement, like a hen after laying an egg. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > boast [verb (intransitive)] yelpc888 kebc1315 glorify1340 to make avauntc1340 boast1377 brag1377 to shake boastc1380 glorya1382 to make (one's) boastc1385 crackc1470 avaunt1471 glaster1513 voust1513 to make (one's or a) vauntc1515 jet?1521 vaunt?1521 crowa1529 rail1530 devauntc1540 brave1549 vaunt1611 thrasonize1619 vapour1629 ostentate1670 goster1673 flourish1674 rodomontade1681 taper1683 gasconade1717 stump1721 rift1794 mang1819 snigger1823 gab1825 cackle1847 to talk horse1855 skite1857 to blow (also U.S. toot) one's own horn1859 to shoot off one's mouth1864 spreadeagle1866 swank1874 bum1877 to sound off1918 woof1934 to shoot a line1941 to honk off1952 to mouth off1958 blow- 1847 B. Disraeli Tancred I. ii. v. 159 The peers cackle as if they had laid an egg. 1860 T. P. Thompson Audi Alteram Partem (1861) III. cxix. 59 It is also the business of a sensible government, not to cackle on its discoveries. c. To chuckle, ‘to laugh, to giggle’ (Johnson). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > types of laughter > laugh in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > chuckle keckle1513 chuck1598 shuckle1598 cackle1712 chuckle1803 chortle1871 1712 J. Arbuthnot John Bull Still in Senses x. 45 Then Nic. grin'd, cackled and laugh'd. 3. transitive. To utter with or express by cackling. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > utter in a chattering manner [verb (transitive)] cacklec1230 chattera1250 clapc1315 jangle1377 blabberc1380 trattlea1425 pratea1475 chat1483 prattlea1500 prittle-prattlea1555 gabble1566 blatter?1567 gaggle1577 clacket1579 knap1581 prittle1583 clack1590 volley1591 tattle1593 prabble1603 out-babble1649 garrulate1656 gabber?1661 chime1697 spiel1904 chitter-chatter1928 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > other vocal sounds > [verb (transitive)] > express by cackling cacklec1230 c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 36 Ȝef hit nere icakelet. 1857 D. Livingstone Missionary Trav. S. Afr. vi. 114 Any man who..cackles forth a torrent of vocables. 1880 W. D. Howells Undiscovered Country i. 28 The ladies..now rose..and joyously cackled satisfaction. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online March 2022). cacklev.² Forms: 1700s cackle, 1800s kackle. Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: keckle v.² Etymology: Variant of keckle v.²Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈcackle. Nautical. ‘To cover a cable spirally with 3-inch old rope to protect it from chafe in the hawse hole’ (Adm. Smyth). ΚΠ 1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson iii. ii. 318 They [sc. cables] were cackled twenty fathom from the anchors. 1883 Man. Seamanship for Boys' Training Ships Royal Navy (1886) 128 The cable is then served, or, as is termed, kackled with 2½-in. rounding, for the distance of 9 ft. from the eye. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.c1230v.¹?c1225v.²1748
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