cackles

verb (used without object), cack·led, cack·ling.

1. to utter a shrill, broken sound or cry, as of a hen.
2. to laugh in a shrill, broken manner.
3. to chatter noisily; prattle.

verb (used with object), cack·led, cack·ling.

4. to utter with cackles; express by cackling: They cackled their disapproval.

noun

5. the act or sound of cackling.
6. chatter; idle talk.

verb

1. (intr) (esp of a hen) to squawk with shrill notes
2. (intr) to laugh or chatter raucously
3. (tr) to utter in a cackling manner

noun

4. the noise or act of cackling
5. noisy chatter
6. cut the cackle informal to stop chattering; be quiet

v.

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.