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

Cackle \Cac"kle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Cackled (-k'ld); p. pr.
   & vb. n. Cackling.] [OE. cakelen; cf. LG. kakeln, D.
   kakelen, G. gackeln, gackern; all of imitative origin. Cf.
   Gagle, Cake to cackle.]
   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. --Arbuthnot.

   3. To talk in a silly manner; to prattle. --Johnson.

Cackle \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.