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cackle

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6 lettersPronunciation /ˈkækəl/Part of speech verb, nounSorted acceklStarts with CEnds with E0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. emit a loud, unpleasant kind of laughing

Word origin

From Middle English caclen, cakelen, perhaps from Old English *caclian, *cacolian, from Proto-West Germanic *kakulōn, *kakilōn (“to cackle, gaggle, yelp, snarl”), perhaps of imitative origin. By surface analysis, cack + -le.

Used in a sentence

  • I heard a grey hen cackling among the ling; I called and thought, "If I could get a sight of you now, it would be your last cackle;" just then I heard something moving behind me on the path.
  • There's no time to waste on silly cackle.
  • When every goose is cackling.

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