Dictionary Entry
cackle
cackle is a 6-letter English word with 11 senses as intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 17 · 11 senses
Definitions
- 1intransitive verb
To make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does.
- 2intransitive verb
To laugh with a broken noise, like the cackling of a hen or a goose; to giggle.
- 3intransitive verb
To talk in a silly manner; to prattle.
- 4noun
The sharp broken noise made by a goose or by a hen that has laid an egg.
- 5noun
Idle talk; silly prattle.
- 6noun
a loud laugh suggestive of a hen's cackle
- 7noun
noisy talk
- 8noun
the sound made by a hen after laying an egg
- 9verb
emit a loud, unpleasant kind of laughing
- 10verb
squawk shrilly and loudly, characteristic of hens
- 11verb
talk or utter in a cackling manner
"The women cackled when they saw the movie star step out of the limousine"
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