cackle

cackle
v
1. cluck, chuckle, click, clack; crow, quack.
2. chuckle, chortle, giggle; titter, twitter, te-hee, snicker, snigger.
3. chatter noisily, prattle, jabber, gibber, Sl. gibber-jabber, jargon; babble, prate, tattle, twaddle, Brit. twattle; patter, gabble, blather, drivel; chit-chat, chitter-chatter, chaffer, bandy words; gossip, buzz, talk idly, Sl. shoot the breeze, Sl. gas, Inf. gab, Sl. bull; palaver, clack, clatter, rattle, Sl. run off or on at the mouth; gush, blab, Inf. spout, be loquacious or talkative.
n
4. cackling, cluck, clucking, chuckle, chuckling, click, clicking, clack, clacking; crow, crowing, quack, quacking.
5. chuckle, chuckling, chortle, chortling, giggle, giggling, broken laughter; titter, tittering, twitter, twittering, Inf. te-hee; snicker, snickering, snigger, sniggering.
6. idle talk, small talk, chatter, chattering, Anglo-Indian. bukh; chit-chat, chit-chatting, chitter-chatter, gossip, blab, blabbing, Inf. gab; cackling, gibber, gibbering, Sl. gibber-jabbering; babble, babbling, babblement, Fr. bavardage. blather, blathering, rapid and inarticulate talk; twaddle, twaddling, Brit. twattle, Brit. twattling, drivel, driveling; prate, prating, tattle, tattling, excessive talk; gushing, Inf. spouting, Sl. running off or on at the mouth; rambling, maundering.

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