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Noun
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(n)
cackle
(the sound made by a hen after laying an egg)
S:
(n)
yak
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yack
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yakety-yak
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chatter
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cackle
(noisy talk)
S:
(n)
cackle
(a loud laugh suggestive of a hen's cackle)
Verb
S:
(v)
cackle
(talk or utter in a cackling manner)
"The women cackled when they saw the movie star step out of the limousine"
S:
(v)
cackle
(squawk shrilly and loudly, characteristic of hens)
S:
(v)
cackle
(emit a loud, unpleasant kind of laughing)