cackle
Other forms: cackling; cackled; cackles
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.
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emit a loud, unpleasant kind of laughing
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type of:
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express joy, express mirth, laugh
produce laughter
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express joy, express mirth, laugh
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talk or utter in a cackling manner
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squawk shrilly and loudly, characteristic of hens
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a loud laugh suggestive of a hen's cackle
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the sound made by a hen after laying an egg
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type of:
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cry
the characteristic utterance of an animal
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cry
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noisy talk
Vocabulary lists containing cackle
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