Synonyms for cackle
Definitions
- n. 1
The cry of a hen or goose, especially when laying an egg.
- n. 2
A laugh resembling the cry of a hen or goose.
Related words
- Word family
- cackleberry cackle-fart cackly cackler
- Phrases
- cackle fruit
- Other spellings
- kackle keckle
Forms
- Plural
- cackles → chatters, babbles, clacks, gossips…
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The cackle of a hen, the gabble of a goose, the chatter of a magpie, the babble of a running stream, as applied to human speech, indicate a rapid succession of what are to the listener meaningless sounds.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- chatter She finds comfort in silence rather than chatter.
- babble She didn't pay attention to her husband's babble.
- gabble I couldn't understand a word of his nervous gabble during the interview.
- laugh Shy children never laugh until everyone else does.
- laughter She discombobulated me with her feckless laughter.
By length
- 3 letters
- yak1, gab1
- 4 letters
- blab1
- 5 letters
- laugh1, clack1, cluck1, prate
- 6 letters
- gossip2, rattle2, jargon2, babble2, jabber, natter2, gibber, gabble
- 7 letters
- chuckle2, chatter2, clatter2, prattle2, palaver, blather2, twaddle2, blabber2
- 8 letters
- laughter2
- 12 letters
- cachinnation
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (gossip2 = 2 syllables).