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Definition of Cackling
1. n. The broken noise of a goose or a hen.
Definition of Cackling
1. Verb. (present participle of cackle) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cackling
1. cackle [v] - See also: cackle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cackling
Literary usage of Cackling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1889)
"cackling farts (old), eggs. Cad (common). The word is hardly slang in some of
its senses. It has various meanings, such as omnibus conductor. ..."
2. The Jonson Allusion-Book: A Collection of Allusions to Ben Jonson from 1597-1700 by Jesse Franklin Bradley, Joseph Quincy Adams (1922)
"... hath this flock of cackling geese compar'd With thy tuned choir of swans?
or who hath dared To call thy births deform'd? but if thou bind By City-Custom ..."
3. Conversations on Some of the Old Poets by James Russell Lowell (1893)
"... hastening to join that of his Eurydice, must rake for corn in Elysian fields,
with the bitter thought, that not one but seven Eurydices are cackling for ..."
4. Things Mundane by Evan Rayland Chesterman (1912)
"Were she to hear how rapidly my health is improving and what a flutter I am
causing among the pullets at cackling Springs, she would instantaneously blow in ..."
5. Dictionary of the Hausa Language by Charles Henry Robinson (1913)
"... a line of writing or print, shewa, whistling, shouting, the cackling, giggling
of women; see sowa. shi (cf. ..."
6. The Natural History of Ireland by William Thompson, James R. Garrett, George Dickie (1851)
"to the water, turning round from time to time, and cackling so as to guide her
aright. After this the two proceeded to the hall- door, where a feed of oats ..."
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