v. i. | 1. | To make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does. |
2. | To laugh with a broken noise, like the cackling of a hen or a goose; to giggle. | |
3. | To talk in a silly manner; to prattle. | |
n. | 1. | The sharp broken noise made by a goose or by a hen that has laid an egg. |
2. | Idle talk; silly prattle. |
Noun | 1. | cackle - the sound made by a hen after laying an egg |
2. | cackle - noisy talk | |
3. | cackle - a loud laugh suggestive of a hen's cackle | |
Verb | 1. | cackle - talk or utter in a cackling manner; "The women cackled when they saw the movie star step out of the limousine" |
2. | cackle - squawk shrilly and loudly, characteristic of hens | |
3. | cackle - emit a loud, unpleasant kind of laughing |