VERB | communication | cackle | talk / talk or utter in a cackling manner |
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communication | cackle | squawk shrilly and loudly, characteristic of hens | |
body | cackle | emit a loud, unpleasant kind of laughing | |
NOUN | event | cackle | the sound made by a hen after laying an egg |
communication | cackle, yak, yack, yakety-yak, chatter | noisy talk | |
communication | cackle | a loud laugh suggestive of a hen's cackle |
Sounds | kae'kahl | |
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Rhymes | abdominal ... zoological: 2115 rhymes with ahl... |
Meaning | The sound made by a hen after laying an egg. | |
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Broader | cry | The characteristic utterance of an animal |
Spanish | cacareo | |
Adjectives | cackly | like the cackles or squawks a hen makes especially after laying an egg |
Verbs | cackle | squawk shrilly and loudly, characteristic of hens |
Meaning | noisy talk. | |
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Synonyms | yak, yack, yakety-yak, chatter | |
Narrower | prate, prattle, idle talk, blether, chin music | idle or foolish and irrelevant talk |
Broader | talk, talking | An exchange of ideas via conversation |
Spanish | cacareo, cháchara, cotorreo, parloteo, tarabilla | |
Catalan | borbolla, claca, rall, xerradissa, xerrameca, xerramenta, xerrola | |
Verbs | cackle | talk / talk or utter in a cackling manner |
Meaning | A loud laugh suggestive of a hen's cackle. | |
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Broader | laugh, laughter | The sound of laughing |
Spanish | cacareo, cloqueo | |
Catalan | cloqueig, escataineig | |
Verbs | cackle | emit a loud, unpleasant kind of laughing |
Meaning | talk / talk or utter in a cackling manner. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s that CLAUSE | |
Model | Sam and Sue cackle | |
Example | "The women cackled when they saw the movie star step out of the limousine" | |
Broader | talk, speak, utter, mouth, verbalize, verbalise | Express in speech |
Spanish | cacarear, cloquear | |
Catalan | cloquejar, escatainar | |
Nouns | cackle | noisy talk |
cackler | a hen that has just laid an egg and emits a shrill squawk |
Meaning | squawk shrilly and loudly, characteristic of hens. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s | |
Narrower | gaggle | make a noise characteristic of a goose |
Broader | utter, emit, let out, let loose | Express audibly |
Spanish | cacarear | |
Catalan | cloquejar, escaïnar, escatainar | |
Nouns | cackle | the sound made by a hen after laying an egg |
cackler | a hen that has just laid an egg and emits a shrill squawk | |
cackler | any of various insectivorous Old World birds with a loud incessant song |
Meaning | emit a loud, unpleasant kind of laughing. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s | |
Broader | laugh, express joy, express mirth | produce laughter |
Spanish | cacarear | |
Nouns | cackle | a loud laugh suggestive of a hen's cackle |
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