| 单词 | cackle |
| 释义 | cackle (once / 2638 pages) vn To cackle is to laugh in a loud, harsh way. Your dad's jokes might be so bad that they're funny, making you cackle every time. When you cackle, people hear you — it's annoying to sit in an otherwise quiet restaurant beside a table of people who talk and cackle raucously. The sound the cacklers make can also be called a cackle, a squawking laugh that a chicken might make. Experts think there may be a connection between cackle and the Middle Dutch word for "jaw," kake, but it's most likely to be imitative, a word that sounds just like the noise it describes. WORD FAMILYcackle: cackled, cackler, cackles, cackling, cackly+/cackler: cacklers USAGE EXAMPLESThe teenagers were hoping to catch sight of a cackling goose. Washington Times(Dec 23, 2016) And the sound of that cackle following me down the hall. Seattle Times(Dec 06, 2016) "I look upon him as my big brother now, even though I am older than him," he says, with a throaty cackle. BBC(Nov 29, 2016) 1v emit a loud, unpleasant kind of laughing Hyper express joy, express mirth, laugh produce laughter 2v talk or utter in a cackling manner The women cackled when they saw the movie star step out of the limousine Hyper mouth, speak, talk, utter, verbalise, verbalize express in speech 3v squawk shrilly and loudly, characteristic of hens Hypo|Hyper gaggle make a noise characteristic of a goose emit, let loose, let out, utter express audibly; utter sounds (not necessarily words) 4n a loud laugh suggestive of a hen's cackle Hyper laugh, laughter the sound of laughing 5n the sound made by a hen after laying an egg Hyper cry the characteristic utterance of an animal 6n noisy talk Syn|Hypo|Hyper chatter, yack, yak, yakety-yak blether, chin music, idle talk, prate, prattle idle or foolish and irrelevant talk talk, talking an exchange of ideas via conversation |
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