Definition of cackling

"cackling" in the verb sense

1. cackle

talk or utter in a cackling manner

"The women cackled when they saw the movie star step out of the limousine"

2. cackle

squawk shrilly and loudly, characteristic of hens

3. cackle

emit a loud, unpleasant kind of laughing

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Quotations for cackling

I would not have your cackling for your eggs. [ Proverb ]

He that would have eggs must endure the cackling of the hens. [ Proverb ]

If you would have a hen lay, you must bear with her cackling. [ Proverb ]

The nightingale, if she should sing by day, when every goose is cackling, would be thought no better a musician than the wren. How many things by season seasoned are to their right praise and true perfection! [ Shakespeare ]

Wisdom is a fox who, after long hunting, will at last cost you the pains to dig out; it is a cheese, which, by how much the richer, has the thicker, the homlier, and the coarser coat; and whereof to a judicious palate, the maggots are best. It is a sack posset, wherein the deeper you go, you'll find it the sweeter. Wisdom is a hen, whose cackling we must value and consider, because it is attended with an egg. But lastly, it is a nut, which, unless you choose with judgment, may cost you a tooth, and pay you with nothing but a worm. [ Swift ]

cackling in Scrabble®

The word cackling is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 17

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters cackling:

CACKLING
(198)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

lacking

 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word cackling

CACKLING
(198)
CACKLING
(162)
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(132)
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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In cackling

CACKLING
(198)
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cackling in Words With Friends™

The word cackling is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 22

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters cackling:

CACKLING
(192)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

lacking

 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word cackling

CACKLING
(192)
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(156)
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(114)
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(104)
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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In cackling

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(192)
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CACKLING
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