Overview of noun cackle

The noun cackle has 3 senses

• cackle -- (the sound made by a hen after laying an egg)


• yak, yack, yakety-yak, chatter, cackle -- (noisy talk)


• cackle -- (a loud laugh suggestive of a hen's cackle)

Overview of verb cackle

The verb cackle has 3 senses

• cackle -- (talk or utter in a cackling manner; "The women cackled when they saw the movie star step out of the limousine")


• cackle -- (squawk shrilly and loudly, characteristic of hens)


• cackle -- (emit a loud, unpleasant kind of laughing)