cackle
part of speech
verb (cackle, cackles, cackled, cackling); noun (a cackle, cackles)
meaning for a pupil
1) The loud, harsh sound a hen or goose makes. tree →
2) (verb) To laugh in a loud, harsh, high way, often unpleasantly. tree →
3) (noun) Such a laugh. tree →
4) (UK, informal) Silly talk: «cut the cackle» means stop chatting and get to the point. tree →
sense in the lessons
In stories, witches and villains cackle when their plan works. On farms, hens cackle after laying an egg. It tells the reader a laugh sounds mean or wild.
examples
- The witch gave a wicked cackle. tree →
- The hens cackled in the farmyard. tree →
- The villain cackled with delight. tree →
- My aunt has a loud cackle of a laugh. tree →
- Cut the cackle and get on with your work! tree →
- The goose cackled at us as we walked past. tree →
- Many an anxious minute his brothers and sisters had looking for him, while his mother ran to and fro cackling in fear and dismay. tree →
note
Regular verb: cackled. A cackle is harsher than a giggle or a chuckle.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «cackle» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.