cackle

n 1: the sound made by a hen after laying an egg

2: noisy talk [syn: {yak}, {yack}, {yakety-yak}, {chatter}]

3: a loud laugh suggestive of a hen's cackle

v 1: talk or utter in a cackling manner; "Hello!," the women

cackled when they saw the movie star step out of the

limousine.

2: squawk shrilly and loudly, characteristic of hens

3: emit a loud, unpleasant kind of laughing