Cackle

(noun.) a loud laugh suggestive of a hen's cackle.

(noun.) the sound made by a hen after laying an egg.

(verb.) emit a loud, unpleasant kind of laughing.

(verb.) squawk shrilly and loudly, characteristic of hens.

(verb.) talk or utter in a cackling manner; 'The women cackled when they saw the movie star step out of the limousine'.

整理:罗莎

• What old woman's cackle is that? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• But men don't talk in this way, Ann: it's only women, who get together and hiss, and shriek, and cackle. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• They giggled, cackled, tattled, condoled, consoled, and patronized her until they drove her almost wild with rage. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• But they interrupt every dream, every pleasant train of thought, with their tiresome cackling. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.

整理:洛蒂