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 cack·le /ˈkækəl/
 咯咯聲,高笑聲,饒舌,閒談(vi.)咯咯地叫,格格地笑,喋喋不休

 Cac·kle v. i. [imp. & p. p. Cackled p. pr. & vb. n. Cackling ]
 1. To make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does.
    When every goose is cackling.   --Shak.
 2. To laugh with a broken noise, like the cackling of a hen or a goose; to giggle.
 3. To talk in a silly manner; to prattle.

 Cac·kle n.
 1. The sharp broken noise made by a goose or by a hen that has laid an egg.
    By her cackle saved the state.   --Dryden.
 2. Idle talk; silly prattle.
    There is a buzz and cackle all around regarding the sermon.   --Thackeray.
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 cackle
      n 1: the sound made by a hen after laying an egg
      2: noisy talk [syn: yak, yack, yakety-yak, chatter]
      3: a loud laugh suggestive of a hen's cackle
      v 1: talk or utter in a cackling manner; "The women cackled when
           they saw the movie star step out of the limousine"
      2: squawk shrilly and loudly, characteristic of hens
      3: emit a loud, unpleasant kind of laughing