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Date: 1100-1200
Origin: From the sound

cackle

1 verb
     
Related topics: Birds
cack‧le1 [intransitive]
1 to laugh in a loud unpleasant way, making short high sounds
2HBB when a chicken cackles, it makes a loud high sound
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