Cackle

['kæk(ə)l] or ['kækl]

解釋/意思:

(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--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(v. i.) To make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does.

(v. i.) To laugh with a broken noise, like the cackling of a hen or a goose; to giggle.

(v. i.) To talk in a silly manner; to prattle.

(n.) The sharp broken noise made by a goose or by a hen that has laid an egg.

(n.) Idle talk; silly prattle.

凯西整理

同義詞及近義詞：

v. n. [1]. Laugh (with a sound like the cackling of a goose), GIGGLE, TITTER, SNICKER.[2]. Prate, prattle, babble, chatter, palaver, talk idly, talk nonsense.

n. Prattle, prate, twaddle, idle talk, small talk.

阿玛莉亚整理

同義詞及反義詞：

[See CACHINNATION]

迪尔德丽手打

解釋/意思:

n. the sound made by a hen or goose.—v.i. to make such a sound.—ns. Cack′ler a fowl that cackles: a talkative gossiping person; Cack′ling noise of a goose or hen.

編輯:沃伦