(v. i.) To make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does.
(v. i.) To laugh with a broken noise, like the cackling of a hen or a goose; to giggle.
(v. i.) To talk in a silly manner; to prattle.
(n.) The sharp broken noise made by a goose or by a hen that has laid an egg.
(n.) Idle talk; silly prattle.
Example Sentences:
(1) And Jesus Christ, we don’t know about him – it seems as if he may have just been a Jewish radical, so if I had to pick one… heheheheh!” He cackles like a crazy.
(2) Tommy from Vice City is a cackling psychopath, and CJ from San Andreas merely rides the acquisitionist philosophy of hip-hop culture to terminal amorality.
(3) Herman cackles and screams as he pushes the meat into Anwar's mouth.
(4) We strolled across springy heather and moss as wet as a sponge, and a strange cackling call of “go-back, go-back” rose on the wind: small coveys of red grouse whirred away from us.
(5) And we can hear the old man cackle: "You see, I told you so!
(6) The only sound is the astonishing cackle of a green woodpecker.
(7) Churchill described the code breakers as "golden geese who laid the golden eggs and never cackled".
(8) But cackling local baddie Lawrence Murphy (Jack Palance) turns up to ruin their fun.
(9) This feat he proudly recorded: “One cackling young crone claimed loudly that I had no evidence.” As well as limiting access to abortion and excluding women from company boards and any other careers where they might take men’s jobs, Mr Buchanan hopes, with his election campaign, to inflict especial damage on the Labour party, to which end he is standing against Gloria de Piero .
(10) She grins gamely while the ghost of Ricky Gervais cackles loudly in the wings.
(11) Nonetheless, this is the first time I think I've seen it framed in such a "female" way and, as we are usually the ones being told not to "leave it too late", I have to admit that I almost cackled (young women have delicate, tinkling laughs, but feminists cackle, obviously).
(12) Somehow I think I can hear him cackling now, laughing at us as we write and read all these pieces about him.
(13) What so riles the Lib Dems – and, just to make this clear, it's their own fault – is that the plot of the coalition's story may well turn out to be something like this: Cameron in Flashman mode, craftily convincing his new friends to journey into the unknown, leaving them mortally wounded, and walking away, cackling, with barely a scratch.
(14) The 'cingular' vocalization area lies around the sulcus cinguli at the level of the genu of the corpus callosum; its electrical stimulation yields purring and cackling calls.
(15) We’ve all, surely, been tailgated by cackling non-EU students, pushed off the road and forced to take an alternative route.
(16) (To the sort of people who cackle at children, yes.)
(17) As Bond aficionados will be well aware, White’s job is to turn up every now and then to offer up cackling portents of impending doom regarding terrifying nefarious organisations that 007 and his pals appear to know nothing about.
(18) When I finish maybe I’ll play Sunday league.” Defoe cackles and thinks of home.
(19) "My dear Watson, your stupidity never lets you down," Holmes cackled, drawing deeply on a pipe of heaviest shag.
(20) I found my people, finally.” She cackles at the memories: the times she would drive down the motorway with Geri, both of them topless; the drinking, the clubbing, the fights.
Chatter
Definition:
(v. i.) To utter sounds which somewhat resemble language, but are inarticulate and indistinct.
(v. i.) To talk idly, carelessly, or with undue rapidity; to jabber; to prate.
(v. i.) To make a noise by rapid collisions.
(v. t.) To utter rapidly, idly, or indistinctly.
(n.) Sounds like those of a magpie or monkey; idle talk; rapid, thoughtless talk; jabber; prattle.
(n.) Noise made by collision of the teeth, as in shivering.
Example Sentences:
(1) I have had the awe-inducing pleasure of standing alone among the giant trees, both sequoias and redwoods, and hearing nothing but the chatter of the squirrels and the high wind in the tallest branches.
(2) The selective kappa antagonists Mr1452 and Mr2266 significantly precipitated only urination and teeth chattering.
(3) Also note chatter of Bernanke stepping down next week (6-weeks early), if successor Yellen gained full Senate approval, allowing her to chair the December FOMC meeting.
(4) Rumours and allegations about excesses, corruption and infighting, mostly made anonymously, are impossible to verify, though Riyadh’s chattering classes have heard them all.
(5) caused a significant decrease in DA levels accompanied by typical withdrawal symptoms such as wet dog shakes and teeth-chattering.
(6) Those whose ears catch the idle chatter from the more indiscreet members of Ed’s office have let drop that the leader was reportedly “furious” with Andy for raising not-so-oblique criticisms of the ‘hush now’ approach to party policy, and he could face the chop.
(7) Culture secretary Sajid Javid has said that ticket touts are “classic entrepreneurs” and their detractors are the “chattering middle classes and champagne socialists, who have no interest in helping the common working man earn a decent living by acting as a middleman”.
(8) In three visits to the area over the last two weeks, almost all the voters I spoke to began each conversation by saying, unprompted, that they were concerned about immigration – the electrician complaining about wages being undercut by eastern European workers, the parents unable to get their offspring into local primary schools because immigrant children were taking up scarce places, the patients waiting for a GP appointment in a waiting room filled with foreign chatter.
(9) • Try to ignore the noise around you: the chatter, the parties, the reviews, the envy, the shame.
(10) Hollow-eyed children beg outside restaurants and cafes that hum with the chatter of shisha-smoking customers.
(11) To many shoppers – and I exclude here members of the chattering classes, who were always rather sniffy about Tesco – the company’s decline has been evident for some time, at least for the two years that its market share has been falling.
(12) Few people outside Moscow’s inner ring road may be able to tell their Parmigiano Reggiano from their Grana Padano, but it is not only the chattering classes who have suffered from the cheese ban.
(13) Of the 12 withdrawal signs scored, the only significant changes observed after ibogaine (compared with vehicle control) was a decrease in grooming (10 mg kg-1) and an increase in teeth chatter (5 mg kg-1).
(14) There has been inevitable chatter that Lewis is being lined up to replace MacLennan when he retires.
(15) There has been some pre-fight chatter that a commitment to God by Pacquiao has made him too polite to knock out opponents.
(16) At bedtime, he used to find the music and background chatter from his sisters' rooms comforting.
(17) The chatter was that Osborne, David Cameron and Boris Johnson were heading off for a private dinner tonight somewhere in Davos.
(18) The chatter around the sale was remarkably light on the "need for private investment in Royal Mail" (the government's mantra since 2010) and rather more concerned with share value.
(19) There is no sound apart from the chickens and chatter of voices, young and old.
(20) Similarly, attack and teeth-chattering have been shown to derive from different neural mechanisms, despite substantial overlap of both response areas.