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A hen that has just laid an egg and emits a shrill squawk
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cackler
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cackler \Cac"kler\, n. A fowl that cackles. One who prattles, or tells tales; a tattler.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n: a hen that has just laid an egg and emits a shrill squawk any of various insectivorous Old World birds with a loud incessant song; in some classifications considered members of the family Muscicapidae [syn: babbler ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A person or creature that cackles.
Usage examples of cackler.
His life was that of the Egg of the "Great Cackler," and the goddess Sesheta built a house for him in the Celestial Anu, or Heliopolis.
We're not the pointed-hat-wearing, broomstick-riding cacklers that much of fiction drew us to be.
Under coercion they were instantly senile—confused, drooling, rheumy old cacklers about a breath and a half from turning vegetable.