cackle
noun
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- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
the sound made by a hen after laying an egg
Types & categories
- cry hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 2 verb
talk or utter in a cackling manner
The women cackled when they saw the movie star step out of the limousine
Types & categories
- mouth hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 3 noun
noisy talk
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Sense 4 verb
squawk shrilly and loudly, characteristic of hens
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Sense 5 noun
a loud laugh suggestive of a hen's cackle
Types & categories
- laughter hypernym
Related & opposite
- cackle derivation
Sense 6 verb
emit a loud, unpleasant kind of laughing
Types & categories
- laugh hypernym
Related & opposite
- cackle derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | cackle |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | cackly |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | cry |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | cackler |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | yak |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | mouth |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | piffle |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | yack |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | chat |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | cackle |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | talk |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | prate |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | babbler |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | cackler |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | cackle |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | let out |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | gaggle |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | cackle |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | laughter |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | cackle |
| 6 | hypernym | Types & categories | laugh |