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Discover LudwigThe word "cackle" is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to describe a loud, harsh laugh that is usually associated with a person who is excited, mischievous, or mildly insane. For example, "The old man's cackle filled the room as he recalled his wild adventures."
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cackle
noun
The cry of a hen or goose, especially when laying an egg
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Though, on the plus side, it also doesn't feature Gervais's paint-stripping cackle.
The Senate has been warbling away, having a cackle, is probably a reasonable description, for the last ten minutes or so, about his Argentinian tango over the past couple of days on the debt tax.
According to her account, Smyth, of Suffolk Street in Ballymena, then started to cackle menacingly.
"Volker Rüpel, Volkerer the lout), mutter some men from the ministry sourly, who have been told to cut the cackle by their impatient boss.
In Brussels, eager enthusiasts for more European integration on all fronts still cackle with amusement over how Mrs Thatcher was persuaded unwittingly to sign away so much sovereignty.
The chatter and cackle of Bushmen, and what it says about usHAS evolution hardwired our brains to be entertained by stories at night?
Lexington junior: [silence] Lexington: So, what do you think of the president's speech?At this point, Lexington junior gave a demonic cackle and attempted to give his father a wedgie.
Members of the social groups often cackle noisily together.
I was also ordered to paint his toenails black, so his carers either cackle when they see his feet, or, in the case of cool cat Carmelo, say that Nick reminds them of The Cramps' Lux Interior.
I smoke, I slurp, I shovel my lunch and my laugh is a shrill cackle that would make the Wicked Witch of the West wince.
A cackle (the collective noun) of newspaper editors – myself, Amol Rajan of The Independent, Lisa Markwell of The Independent on Sunday and the Evening Standard's Sarah Sands – are using our New Year resolutions to raise money for Great Ormond Street Hospital.
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