1. Talk or utter in a cackling manner
   "The women cackled when they saw the movie star step out of the limousine" 
2. Squawk shrilly and loudly, characteristic of hens 
3. Emit a loud, unpleasant kind of laughing

1. The sound made by a hen after laying an egg 
2. Noisy talk
   - yak, yack, yakety-yak, chatter, yackety-yak 
3. A loud laugh suggestive of a hen's cackle

Derived forms: cackling, cackled, cackles

See also: cackler, cackly

Type of: cry, emit, express joy, express mirth, laugh, laughter, let loose, let out, mouth, speak, talk, talking, utter, verbalise [Brit], verbalize

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