English Dictionary

cackle

/ˈkækəl/

verb

(intransitive) To make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does. / (intransitive) To laugh with a broken sound similar to a hen's cry. / (intransitive) To talk in a silly manner; to prattle.

The witch cackled loudly as she stirred her cauldron.

意味（1）

(intransitive) To make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does.

When every goose is cackling.

意味（2）

(intransitive) To laugh with a broken sound similar to a hen's cry.

She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid, […]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.

意味（3）

(intransitive) To talk in a silly manner; to prattle.

It is also the business of a sensible government, not to cackle on its discoveries

意味（4）

(transitive, gambling, slang) To pretend to rattle (dice) in one's hand while gripping them so that they maintain their orientation.

Danny cackled the dice furiously in his cupped hand, then rolled them so they stopped inches from Slattery's hands. The result was the same as before – a seven.