• IPA: /ˈkækəl/

cackle

1. The cry of a hen or goose, especially when laying an egg.
2. A laugh resembling the cry of a hen or goose.
3. Futile or excessively noisy talk.
   • 1930, Frank Richards, The Magnet, All Quiet on the Greyfriars Front

     There's no time to waste on silly cackle.

4. A group of hyenas.

• French: caquet
• Italian: chiocciare
• Portuguese: cacarejo
• Russian: куда́хтанье
• Spanish: cacareo

• French: ricanement, gloussement

cackle (cackles, present participle cackling; past and past participle cackled)

1. (intransitive) To make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does.
   • c. 1596–1598, William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act V, scene i]:

     When every goose is cackling.

2. (intransitive) To laugh with a broken sound similar to a hen's cry.

   The witch cackled evilly.

3. (intransitive) To talk in a silly manner; to prattle.

• See also Thesaurus:laugh

• French: caqueter
• Spanish: cacarear

• French: caqueter
• Portuguese: cacarejar
• Russian: гогота́ть