Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The broken noise of a goose or a hen.
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- verb Present participle of
cackle .
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Examples
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Pratchett calls this state 'cackling'--the belief that one knows better than anyone how people should live their lives.
Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett Abigail Nussbaum 2006
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Pratchett calls this state 'cackling'--the belief that one knows better than anyone how people should live their lives.
Archive 2006-11-01 Abigail Nussbaum 2006
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I looked them up in the ADF&G wildlife notebook on Dinah’s computer and there are six different species, including one called the cackling Canada geese which I really love the name of and I wished it nested here but the notebook says not.
A Grave Denied Stabenow, Dana 2003
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Dubyah reminded us of an entitled cackling jock giving geeks and nerds two - handed wedgies in the high school bathroom.
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Dubyah reminded us of an entitled cackling jock giving geeks and nerds two - handed wedgies in the high school bathroom.
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Dubyah reminded us of an entitled cackling jock giving geeks and nerds two - handed wedgies in the high school bathroom.
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Dubyah reminded us of an entitled cackling jock giving geeks and nerds two - handed wedgies in the high school bathroom.
AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed AlterNet Will Durst 2010
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The shadow creature laughed, if that's what you could call the cackling sound it made.
unknown title 2009
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That's when the "cackling" as Eldred calls it commenced.
Holiday Cheer ealdthryth 2002
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The bird frequently makes a kind of cackling noise, and when enraged at an enemy, it hisses very loudly.
New National Fourth Reader J. Marshall Hawkes
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