(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.
Mackle
Definition:
(n.) Same Macule.
(v. t. & i.) To blur, or be blurred, in printing, as if there were a double impression.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mackle left the company and carried on in the trade on his own, but is said to have remained loyal to his old friend.
(2) When customs officers uncovered the fraud for which Mackle was said to have been responsible, Fairbairn concocted a panic plan to cover it up.
(3) The unexpected visitor to Mackle's cold store last year was the environmental health officer (EHO) from the local district council, as Freeza's commercial director, Jim Fairbairn, recalled much later in a colourful appearance before British MPs investigating the horsemeat scandal at the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Efra) select committee.
(4) This wasn't Fairbairn's first star turn – he had also played a prominent role in the Beef Tribunal, alongside Mackle.
(5) MPs also wanted to question Goodman himself, along with Mackle and McAdam, but they declined to come.
(6) Goodman said he had been unaware of any illegality and blamed Mackle as a rogue subcontractor in charge of a couple of his abattoir boning halls for falsifying weights while acting without authority.
(7) "I have a desire to do more business over time using the O2 proposition, but I wouldn't be naive enough to think I could reach the dizzy heights of 100%," says Feilim Mackle, the group's sales and service director.
(8) Mr Goodman was never friends with Mr Mackle and has not spoken to or met him in over 20 years, making the article's characterisation of him being an "old friend" difficult to sustain.
(9) The cold store was owned by Freeza Meats , a supermarket burger-making company founded some 40 years ago by a well-known meat man, Eamon Mackle, and still run by his family.
(10) Among other misapprehensions, the second article gives the impression of an axis of corporate and personal relationships between Eamon Mackle of Freeza Meats and ABP's chairman Larry Goodman.
(11) With the adulteration crisis spreading rapidly across Europe, drawing in more and more companies, the UK regulators remembered the parcel in the Mackles' Newry cold store and picked it up again.
(12) Had Mackle and Fairbairn engaged recently in similar activity to that of the 1980s, repacking and relabelling what turned out to be horse at Freeza Meats?