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cackle

noun verb

a loud laugh suggestive of a hen's cackle

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Word length
6
Starts with
C
Ends with
E
Contains
AC
Scrabble score
14

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noun

  1. a loud laugh suggestive of a hen's cackle

noun

  1. noisy talk

noun

  1. the sound made by a hen after laying an egg

verb

  1. emit a loud, unpleasant kind of laughing

verb

  1. make a cackling sound

    “The fire cackled cozily”

verb

  1. squawk shrilly and loudly, characteristic of hens

verb

  1. talk or utter in a cackling manner

    “The women cackled when they saw the movie star step out of the limousine”

verb

  1. make a noise characteristic of a goose

    “Cackling geese”

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The fire cackled cozily
The women cackled when they saw the movie star step out of the limousine
Cackling geese

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