Usually means: Laughing loudly in a high-pitched manner.
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  1. cackling: Merriam-Webster
  2. cackling: Collins English Dictionary
  3. cackling: Vocabulary.com
  4. Cackling, cackling: Wordnik
  5. cackling: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. cackling: Wiktionary
  7. Cackling, cackling: Dictionary.com
  8. cackling: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Cackling: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. cackling: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. Cackling: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. cackling: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. cackling: FreeDictionary.org
  14. Cackling: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (cackling)

▸ noun:  A sound that cackles.

Similar:
yack, yakety-yak, chatter, yak, cack, gaggling, kackle, cawing, kack, creaking, more...

Opposite:
silent, quiet, still

Types:
witch's cackle, evil laugh, hyenlaugh, maniacal laugh, sinister chuckle, mad cackle, creepy giggle, diabolical snicker, more...

Phrases:
cackling goose, cackling scavengers, more...

Adjectives:
loud, great, much, shrill, hysterical, incessant, continual, noisy, tiresome, constant, frightened



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Similar:
yack, yakety-yak, chatter, yak, cack, gaggling, kackle, cawing, kack, creaking, more...

Opposite:
silent, quiet, still

Types:
witch's cackle, evil laugh, hyenlaugh, maniacal laugh, sinister chuckle, mad cackle, creepy giggle, diabolical snicker, more...

Phrases:
cackling goose, cackling scavengers, more...

Adjectives:
loud, great, much, shrill, hysterical, incessant, continual, noisy, tiresome, constant, frightened



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