Synonyms for cackling
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : kak-uh l |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈkæk əl |
Top 10 synonyms for cackling Other synonyms for the word cackling
Définition of cackling
Origin :- early 13c., imitative (see cachinnation); perhaps partly based on Middle Dutch kake "jaw." Related: Cackled; cackling. As a noun from 1670s. Cackleberries, slang for "eggs" is first recorded 1880.
- verb laugh irritatingly
- No other noise could disturb us but the cackling of hens and the quacking of ducks.
- Extract from : « The Roof of France » by Matilda Betham-Edwards
- We must for ever be kow-towing to the cackling geese around us.
- Extract from : « All Roads Lead to Calvary » by Jerome K. Jerome
- A man with your tongue would be an affinity for a cackling old woman!
- Extract from : « Frank Merriwell's Bravery » by Burt L. Standish
- Well, I am an animal that paints instead of cackling, or braying, or spinning lies.
- Extract from : « Romola » by George Eliot
- Grandpa did, for he was circling Johnnie, cackling with excitement.
- Extract from : « The Rich Little Poor Boy » by Eleanor Gates
- Still the Tufters are geese after all, and are very fond of cackling.
- Extract from : « Seven Little People and their Friends » by Horace Elisha Scudder
- We were on the point of returning to the canoe, when I heard a cackling sound.
- Extract from : « In the Wilds of Florida » by W.H.G. Kingston
- The black showed his teeth again and indulged in his cackling laugh.
- Extract from : « Hunting the Skipper » by George Manville Fenn
- And the centipede laughed a cackling laugh and went in again.
- Extract from : « Eskimo Folktales » by Unknown
- So they had got there before him—cackling about having seen him, he dared say!
- Extract from : « The Forsyte Saga, Complete » by John Galsworthy
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