Word: cackle

n

• a loud laugh suggestive of a hen's cackle
• noisy talk
• the sound made by a hen after laying an egg

v

• emit a loud, unpleasant kind of laughing
• squawk shrilly and loudly, characteristic of hens
• talk or utter in a cackling manner; "The women cackled when they saw the movie star step out of the limousine"

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