cackle

Nouns

  • (n) the sound made by a hen after laying an egg
  • (n) noisy talk chatter, yack, yak, yakety-yak,
  • (n) a loud laugh suggestive of a hen's cackle

Verbs

  • (v) talk or utter in a cackling manner
    • The women cackled when they saw the movie star step out of the limousine
  • (v) squawk shrilly and loudly, characteristic of hens
  • (v) emit a loud, unpleasant kind of laughing

Synonyms

chatter yack yak yakety-yak

Words of close approximity

cackly
cackel cackly
cackler