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Meaning of cackle

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  cackle
      n 1: the sound made by a hen after laying an egg
      2: noisy talk [syn: {yak}, {yack}, {yakety-yak}, {chatter},
         {cackle}]
      3: a loud laugh suggestive of a hen's cackle
      v 1: talk or utter in a cackling manner; "The women cackled when
           they saw the movie star step out of the limousine"
      2: squawk shrilly and loudly, characteristic of hens
      3: emit a loud, unpleasant kind of laughing

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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