(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.
Gaggle
Definition:
(v. i.) To make a noise like a goose; to cackle.
(v. i.) A flock of wild geese.
Example Sentences:
(1) We also hear of a radio streaming service that will challenge Pandora and Spotify, and there's the usual gaggle of iPhone, iPad, and Mac variations.
(2) The warmest cheers came for the NHS ("not for sale", warned Unison's Dave Prentis), for attacks on the banks or (Unite's Len McCluskey) that "gaggle of public schoolboys on the make" who run the coalition.
(3) The gaggle of lawyers acting for the celebrities suing the newspaper argue that all News Corp has done is move from the "one rogue" – referring to the already jailed Goodman – to a "two rogue" strategy.
(4) On the one hand I was already too western for the gaggle of parents who brought us up communally (“You want to study English?
(5) The gaggle today is just today’s pool with the addition of a few others here at the White House.” Some outlets lingered in the West Wing hallway out of frustration but were asked by a Secret Service agent, upon instructions from the White House press office, to leave the area.
(6) I won’t do it again.” But he was cheery enough later, stopping to sign balls for a gaggle of ball-kids on his way to interview.
(7) The crowd has a right to do what they want, to cheer for whoever they want.” But he was cheery enough later, stopping to sign balls for a gaggle of ball-kids on his way to interview.
(8) It feels like a scene from Goodfellas, except instead of gangsters and gumars there's a gaggle of photography assistants nervously working around Ross.
(9) It's easy to forget, watching him talk, viewing old films, even seeing him goof about with a gaggle of kids in Fading Gigolo, that Allen is the product of pre-war New York.
(10) "Watergate and Vietnam served ... to erode the authority I think the president needs to be effective, especially in the national security area," opined the vice-president to a gaggle of reporters in the cabin of Air Force Two, as they flew over the Middle East.
(11) And, as in paradise, there were angels: a gaggle of ragged smiling children had gathered at our door, chattering excitedly.
(12) FOX 29 (@FOX29philly) Gaggle waiting for Christie in Fort Lee, NJ.
(13) After school last week, a gaggle of African children heading home with their satchels waved at the elderly Italian men lined up on chairs for a gossip outside the barber shop.
(14) Without fanfare or advertising, Nando's has woven itself into the fabric of UK society over the past few years, popping up on high streets across the country to serve everyone from happy families to lunching workers, from gaggling teens to dating couples.
(15) We have come too far – in our football stadiums and on our streets – for us to permit the thuggery of a gaggle of drunks to define us and our Britain in 2015.
(16) Spilling out of the Eastern Comfort hostel, which floats on Berlin's river Spree, a gaggle of Spanish tourists in town for a week of clubbing poses for the customary snapshots at one of the city's most iconic images.
(17) The “gaggle” with Sean Spicer , the White House press secretary, took place in lieu of his daily briefing and was originally scheduled as an on-camera event.
(18) Kate got to do some arts and crafts with a gaggle of boisterous school children who thought they were meeting Princess Elsa from Disney’s Frozen.
(19) On 20 April, he announced his alternative currency to a gaggle of online followers.
(20) But things got really weird when I found on Friday a gaggle of police near the Guardian office randomly questioning a 41-year-old Iranian national.