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# cackle

verb (cackle, cackles, cackled, cackling); noun (a cackle, cackles)

«cackle» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. The loud, harsh sound a hen or goose makes. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cackle/#m1)
2. (verb) To laugh in a loud, harsh, high way, often unpleasantly. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cackle/#m2)
3. (noun) Such a laugh. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cackle/#m3)
4. (UK, informal) Silly talk: «cut the cackle» means stop chatting and get to the point. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cackle/#m4)

### In the lessons

In stories, witches and villains cackle when their plan works. On farms, hens cackle after laying an egg. It tells the reader a laugh sounds mean or wild.

### Examples

- The witch gave a wicked cackle. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cackle/#x1)
- The hens cackled in the farmyard. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cackle/#x2)
- The villain cackled with delight. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cackle/#x3)
- My aunt has a loud cackle of a laugh. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cackle/#x4)
- Cut the cackle and get on with your work! [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cackle/#x5)
- The goose cackled at us as we walked past. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cackle/#x6)
- Many an anxious minute his brothers and sisters had looking for him, while his mother ran to and fro cackling in fear and dismay. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cackle/#x7)

### Note

Regular verb: cackled. A cackle is harsher than a giggle or a chuckle.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «cackle» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cackle/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«cackle» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/cackle.html) on Mova free.