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Laugh like a witch
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cackle
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Word definitions for cackle in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cackle \Cac"kle\, n. The sharp broken noise made by a goose or by a hen that has laid an egg. By her cackle saved the state. --Dryden. Idle talk; silly prattle. There is a buzz and cackle all around regarding the sermon. --Thackeray.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 13c., imitative (see cachinnation ); perhaps partly based on Middle Dutch kake "jaw." Related: Cackled ; cackling . As a noun from 1670s. Cackleberries , slang for "eggs" is first recorded 1880.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v: talk or utter in a cackling manner; "The women cackled when they saw the movie star step out of the limousine" squawk shrilly and loudly, characteristic of hens emit a loud, unpleasant kind of laughing
Usage examples of cackle.
Through the windows opposite shone an afterglow sky of ochre and pale-green, and from somewhere just outside came the low cackle of birds settling to roost along a cornicemy-nahs or starlings.
A familiar cackle came from the rock and the alchemist stepped out of it.
Tala had wadded around the arbalest and ran his fingers almost lovingly over the wooden stock and steel bow stave, and Grumuk cackled again.
He heard the door open, heard Burnfingers Begay talking and something cackle a reply.
Those bullets brought back futile answers, despite the angry cackle of Li Hoang, and the babbled shouts of Chun Laro.
The thing cackled with laughter and dumped what must have been the contents of a silverware drawer out onto the roadway, for there was the clatter and clang of cutlery as the contents of the drawer fell together below.
The awful laughter continued to cackle out of his throat, and from his eyes now the smoking whiteness spilled out and Fleam began to glow white and the blood boiled off her hot steel.
This cackle of geriatric cynicism ill became such a creature made for pleasure as Jeanne, but was pox not the emblematic fate of a creature made for pleasure and the price you paid for the atrocious mixture of corruption and innocence this child of the sun brought with her from the Antilles?
Crowds of people, scarfed and booted, have gathered around, laughing and applauding and stamping their feet in the snow, whooping the prancing buffoon through his mocking routines -- now, hobbling and cackling wildly, he is chasing all the young girls in the audience, making them squeal and clutch tight their coats and skirts.
From somewhere in the bush at his back he heard the strange bird the natives called a kookaburra emit its high-pitched cackle, sounding for all the world like demented laughter, and suddenly irritated, Tench thought longingly of his impending return to England.
Nor did the demented, sadistic cackling of Lizzie Flat-chest, crouched in her corner niche on the other side of the cabin, in any way comfort the memoryless woman.
Maggie recognized Old Mender, smiling and cackling, and Soaker, not looking frightened anymore, and Chamber-pot Emptier .
Campbell cackled out loud and poked MacNeill in the ribs with his crop.
The words were followed by another cackle, which Poulette then tried to pass off as a cough with some more throat-clearing noises.
The big red rooster in the purau tree napped his wings, crowed and regarded the ground with down-stretched neck and deep, explosive cackles.