cackle

Meanings

Noun

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

Verb

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

Synonyms

chatter, yack, yak, yakety-yak