cackle

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Related topics: Birds

cack·le1 /ˈkækəl/ verb [intransitiveI]

1. LAUGHto laugh in a loud unpleasant way, making short high sounds 咯咯地笑► see thesaurus at laugh

2. HBBSOUNDwhen a chicken cackles, it makes a loud high sound 〔鸡〕咯咯叫

Examples from the Corpus

cackle• "Oh we've got him now!" I cackled, dancing round the room.• She is apt to cackle evilly.• In telling it, he cackled like a corncrake and waved his arms about.• When I said this, he started cackling like a madman.• He kept laughing, cackling, making wild, insane remarks.• A police car radio cackled raucously.• Mad machines gibbered, cackled, screeched insanely and blasted each other with sudden bursts of machine gun fire.• She begins cackling, smacking her lips, like a child thinking of a turkey dinner.• The hens clambered in, cackling with delight and greed.

cackle2 noun [countableC]

1. a loud high sound that a chicken makes 〔鸡的〕咯咯叫 → cluck

2. LAUGHa short high unpleasant laugh 咯咯的笑声

Examples from the Corpus

cackle• There was a cackle from the old lady. "I know what you're after."• And finally, there are the ones that seem little more than a cue for a really good cackle.• How would you put his cackle in print or produce that grin with parentheses and colons?• loud cackles of amusement• Nor, it must be said, a hoot, chuckle, chortle, crow or cackle.• Spider let out a weird high-pitched cackle that scared Miguel.• In his classes, he subjected students to the cackles of mechanical laugh boxes to test their reactions.

Origin cackle1

(1100-1200) From the sound

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