CACKLE


Meaning of CACKLE in English

I. verb

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

"Oh we've got him now!" I cackled, dancing round the room.

When I said this, he started cackling like a madman.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A police car radio cackled raucously.

He kept laughing, cackling, making wild, insane remarks.

In telling it, he cackled like a corncrake and waved his arms about.

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.

She is apt to cackle evilly.

The hens clambered in, cackling with delight and greed.

II. noun

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

loud cackles of amusement

There was a cackle from the old lady. "I know what you're after."

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

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?

In his classes, he subjected students to the cackles of mechanical laugh boxes to test their reactions.

Nor, it must be said, a hoot, chuckle, chortle, crow or cackle .

Spider let out a weird high-pitched cackle that scared Miguel.

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