She grinned toothlessly and, after a cackle, spoke, "Now your third wish. What will it be?"
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Cackle
//ˈkækəl//
Synonyms for "cackle" (220 found)
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ho-hohomeric laughterhonkhoohoothorselaughhot airidle talkjabberjanglejarjargonkeenlaughlaugh it uplaugh outrightlaughinglaughterliltmere talk
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1 entriesTranslations
93 translations across 25 languages.
Bulgarian
4 entries- кикотене noun (laugh resembling the cry of a hen or goose)
- кудкудякане noun (cry of a hen or goose, especially when laying an egg)
- кикотя се verb (to laugh with a sound similar to a hen's cry)
- крякам verb (to make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does)
Catalan
1 entries- cloqueig noun (cry of a hen or goose, especially when laying an egg)
Czech
4 entries- chechtání noun (laugh resembling the cry of a hen or goose)
- kdákání noun (cry of a hen or goose, especially when laying an egg)
- skřehotavý smích noun (laugh resembling the cry of a hen or goose)
- zachechtání noun (laugh resembling the cry of a hen or goose)
Dutch
4 entries- gegaggel noun (cry of a hen or goose, especially when laying an egg)
- gegaggel noun (laugh resembling the cry of a hen or goose)
- gekakel noun (cry of a hen or goose, especially when laying an egg)
- gekakel noun (laugh resembling the cry of a hen or goose)
Esperanto
2 entries- gaki verb (to make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does)
- rikani verb (to laugh with a sound similar to a hen's cry)
Finnish
4 entries- kaakatus noun (cry of a hen or goose, especially when laying an egg)
- kaakatus noun (laugh resembling the cry of a hen or goose)
- kaklatus noun (cry of a hen or goose, especially when laying an egg)
- kaakattaa verb (to make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does)
French
4 entries- caquet noun (cry of a hen or goose, especially when laying an egg)
- gloussement noun (laugh resembling the cry of a hen or goose)
- ricanement noun (laugh resembling the cry of a hen or goose)
- caqueter verb (to make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does)
Galician
2 entries- cacarexo noun (cry of a hen or goose, especially when laying an egg)
- cacarexar verb (to make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does)
German
4 entries- Gackern noun (cry of a hen or goose, especially when laying an egg)
- Gackern noun (laugh resembling the cry of a hen or goose)
- Gegacker noun (cry of a hen or goose, especially when laying an egg)
- Gegacker noun (laugh resembling the cry of a hen or goose)
Hungarian
4 entries- kotkodácsolás noun (cry of a hen or goose, especially when laying an egg)
- vihogás noun (laugh resembling the cry of a hen or goose)
- kotkodácsol verb (to make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does)
- vihog verb (to laugh with a sound similar to a hen's cry)
Ido
2 entries- kluko noun (cry of a hen or goose, especially when laying an egg)
- klukar verb (to make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does)
Italian
1 entries- chiocciare noun (cry of a hen or goose, especially when laying an egg)
Latin
2 entries- gingrītus noun (cry of a hen or goose, especially when laying an egg)
- gingriō verb (to make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does)
Macedonian
3 entries- кокода́кање noun (cry of a hen or goose, especially when laying an egg)
- кокода́кање noun (laugh resembling the cry of a hen or goose)
- кокода́ка verb (to laugh with a sound similar to a hen's cry)
Māori
4 entries- ketekete noun (laugh resembling the cry of a hen or goose)
- ketekete verb (to make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does)
- ketekete verb (to laugh with a sound similar to a hen's cry)
- kotokoto verb (to make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does)
Norman
1 entries- caqu'ter verb (to laugh with a sound similar to a hen's cry)
Norwegian Bokmål
4 entries- kakkel noun (cry of a hen or goose, especially when laying an egg)
- kakkel noun (laugh resembling the cry of a hen or goose)
- klukk noun (cry of a hen or goose, especially when laying an egg)
- klukk noun (laugh resembling the cry of a hen or goose)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- قهقهه noun (laugh resembling the cry of a hen or goose)
Polish
2 entries- gdakanie noun (cry of a hen or goose, especially when laying an egg)
- gdakać verb (to make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does)
Portuguese
2 entries- cacarejo noun (cry of a hen or goose, especially when laying an egg)
- cacarejar verb (to laugh with a sound similar to a hen's cry)
Russian
3 entries- куда́хтанье noun (cry of a hen or goose, especially when laying an egg)
- гогота́ть verb (to laugh with a sound similar to a hen's cry)
- куда́хтать verb (to laugh with a sound similar to a hen's cry)
Spanish
3 entries- cacareo noun (cry of a hen or goose, especially when laying an egg)
- cacareo noun (laugh resembling the cry of a hen or goose)
- cacarear verb (to make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does)
Swedish
4 entries- kackel noun (cry of a hen or goose, especially when laying an egg)
- kackel noun (laugh resembling the cry of a hen or goose)
- kackla verb (to make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does)
- kackla verb (to laugh with a sound similar to a hen's cry)
Turkish
1 entries- akukmak verb (to laugh with a sound similar to a hen's cry)
Upper Sorbian
1 entries- dakać verb (to make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
Never cackle till your egg is laid.
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In the world outside, skeletal chickens cackle and scrabble in the dirt; dogs bake in mute agony under the vicious sun; green hills tumble silently into the foaming sapphire sea.
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This Inspector, when I first knew him, was a man of fourscore years, or thereabouts, and certainly one of the most wonderful specimens of winter-green that you would be likely to discover in a lifetime’s search. With his florid cheek, his compact figure, smartly arrayed in a bright-buttoned blue coat, his brisk and vigorous step, and his hale and hearty aspect, altogether he seemed—not young, indeed—but a kind of new contrivance of Mother Nature in the shape of man, whom age and infirmity had no business to touch. His voice and laugh, which perpetually re-echoed through the Custom-House, had nothing of the tremulous quaver and cackle of an old man’s utterance; they came strutting out of his lungs, like the crow of a cock, or the blast of a clarion.
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