(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.
Grin
Definition:
(n.) A snare; a gin.
(v. i.) To show the teeth, as a dog; to snarl.
(v. i.) To set the teeth together and open the lips, or to open the mouth and withdraw the lips from the teeth, so as to show them, as in laughter, scorn, or pain.
(v. t.) To express by grinning.
(n.) The act of closing the teeth and showing them, or of withdrawing the lips and showing the teeth; a hard, forced, or sneering smile.
Example Sentences:
(1) "It is incredibly hard work," she says with a sly grin.
(2) There was nothing accidental about Saffiyah Khan’s easy nonchalance, grinning through the spitting rage of Ian Crossland at the EDL rally in Birmingham city centre at the weekend; Ieshia Evans knew there was more power in calm when she approached the police in Baton Rouge last summer.
(3) Then Obama himself swooped in with a big bear hug around Giffords's tiny frame, grinning widely before climbing to the rostrum for the speech.
(4) Thank you for your encouragement and good wishes,” Ma Jing, the director general of CCTV America, told the president, flanked by a number of grinning American staff.
(5) Who can complain of physical fear, of the nightmare of a baby eating its way out of your abdomen, of the loss of professional autonomy, staring at a stranger's idiotic grin?
(6) I have a self-satisfied grin just thinking about these expressions.
(7) People take pictures of themselves wherever they go, from cathedrals to airports to funerals , always the same face grinning at the camera.
(8) The thing that had me cracking up all night long is, I go through 20 years of everybody screaming to pass the ball,” Bryant said with a grin.
(9) Putin could have been forgiven for allowing himself a wry grin, as another court comprehensively trashed Berezovsky's reputation.
(10) The new No8 allowed a slight grin to creep over his face, seemingly struggling to contain his excitement.
(11) She reminds me of the time David was ridiculed for being photographed grinning inanely with a banana.
(12) Asked about his repeated gestures, grins and smirks towards the victims, she said it brought back memories of seeing him at Srebrenica.
(13) The final seconds of the movie are the most memorable, in which Smokey assures Big Worm he’s going to rehab, before hanging up the phone and lighting a joint with a mischievous grin to the camera.
(14) After Second World War army service, his physique, graceful carriage and radiant grin took him from lift attendant to Broadway and instant movie stardom in The Killers (1946).
(15) "We couldn't believe our eyes," grinned Shamad, recalling the sight of Tunisia's ousted despot, Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, fleeing a land he had ruled for 23 years.
(16) "I have no idea," Farage barked back with something between a grin and a scowl.
(17) During mimetic actions, such as wrinkling the forehead, closing the eyes, blinking, grinning and blowing out the cheeks, EMG from 16 disk electrodes were concurrently recorded from the frontalis, orbicularis oculi, and orbicularis oris muscles on both sides.
(18) We’ll definitely show that on the day.” There was a twinkle in his eye and a slight grin on his face but Bale, make no mistake, was deadly serious.
(19) For Cohn, a teddy boy at heart, neither came close to the glamour and speed fix of the rapidly receding “golden age” he wrote about with such dash: Elvis’s “great ducktail plume and lopsided grin”, Phil Spector’s “beautiful noise”, and James Brown, “the outlaw, the Stagger Lee of his time”.
(20) There are pictures of firefighters, policemen, soldiers and members of the public, some grinning and holding up placards celebrating Bin Laden's execution.