cackle
noun
1. the sound made by a hen after laying an egg
Definition categories: event, cry
2. noisy talk
Similar word(s): chatter, yack, yak
Definition categories: communication, talk, talking
3. a loud laugh suggestive of a hen's cackle
Definition categories: communication, laugh, laughter
verb
1. talk or utter in a cackling manner
- The women cackled when they saw the movie star step out of the limousine
Definition categories: communication, mouth, speak, talk, utter, verbalise, verbalize
2. squawk shrilly and loudly, characteristic of hens
Definition categories: communication, emit, utter
3. emit a loud, unpleasant kind of laughing
Definition categories: body, laugh
Sentences with cackle as a verb:
- The witch cackled evilly.