cackling

verb

present participle of cackle
1
as in chatting
to engage in casual or rambling conversation a group of old friends who met regularly to laugh and cackle about their glory days

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2
as in laughing
to show mirth with an explosive vocal sound she cackled with glee when her tax-evading neighbor finally got caught

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Recent Examples of cackling The shocker, of course, is activated via remote control, held by a cackling Knoxville. — Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 26 June 2026 Without hesitation, the Thunder players merged, all cackling simultaneously. — Fred Katz, New York Times, 27 May 2026 Earlier, Mitchell’s Avdotya has attacked him with a pillow, railing and cackling. — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 23 Mar. 2026 And Winston left fans cackling with his version, which poked fun at his infamous crab leg theft from his time at Florida State University in 2014. — Skyler Caruso, PEOPLE, 4 Dec. 2025 As the backstory evolved, Calico townswoman Sarah Marshall transformed into the Green Witch on the gallows, turned her accusing neighbors into monsters with a wicked curse and vanished in a puff of smoke with a cackling laugh. — Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 17 Sep. 2025 Hundreds of shops at CST Road are crammed along half a mile of bumpy road with cackling traffic. — Omkar Khandekar, NPR, 6 Sep. 2025 Then, Kelce was asked about all the Chiefs fandom that was seen in the São Paulo streets, and his response had everyone in the room cackling. — Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 5 Sep. 2025 Wisecracking, cackling mini-maniac Teddy was the daredevil of the group. — Sezin Devi Koehler September 1, EW.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cackling
  1. chatting
  2. laughing
  3. talking
  4. giggling
  5. conversing
  6. chuckling
  7. chattering
  8. screaming
Verb
  • Within the venue gates but outside the stands, groups of friends were playing cornhole and having picnic dinners from food trucks parked onsite; older attendees were chatting and kids were kicking around mini soccer balls.
    — Jared Kaufman, Twin Cities, 7 July 2026
  • Anderson was the final one in the gym, spending nearly a good dozen or so minutes seated next to Hornets assistant coach Ryan Frazier, chatting for a lengthy spell while going over some things.
    — Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 7 July 2026
Definition of chatting
Verb
  • When some users suggested that the pictures were altered by AI, Decker simply dropped some laughing-crying face emojis.
    — Kayla Grant, PEOPLE, 6 July 2026
  • Campos bursts out laughing — a regular occurrence — before returning to the story.
    — Jack Lang, New York Times, 5 July 2026
Definition of laughing
Verb
  • Cholowsky visited Chicago for a few days in early June, talking to coaches and executives, hanging out with players and listening to Jerry Reinsdorf’s baseball stories.
    — Jon Greenberg, New York Times, 12 July 2026
  • Yet nobody could remember ever seeing the man in a cowboy hat before 2024, when he was spotted talking to residents about lawsuits against the local dump.
    — Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2026
Definition of talking
Verb
  • On a recent afternoon outside the temple in central Kerala, Raman stood motionless as two children played, giggling and hugging its trunk.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 3 July 2026
  • Donna and Swift were seen hugging and giggling in their suite at New Jersey's MetLife Stadium alongside the singer's A-list pals.
    — Zoey Lyttle, PEOPLE, 2 July 2026
Definition of giggling
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  • The series will feature Questlove and three guests playing a variety of games from Uno to Jenga to original Questlove creations, all while conversing about their lives and careers.
    — Mya Copeland, Variety, 2 July 2026
  • This is because any of various chatbots can induce in us an irresistible sense of our conversing with an actual person.
    — Joel Marks, Hartford Courant, 17 June 2026
Definition of conversing
Verb
  • And The Rest Is Football(Netflix, YouTube) is the latest podcast to make the leap to the small screen, with former England internationals Gary Lineker, Alan Shearer, and the ever-chuckling Micah Richards serving up a daily helping of World Cup analysis alongside the usual chummy banter.
    — Jon O'Brien, Vulture, 10 June 2026
  • Baffert watched it all on his laptop from California, chuckling as the board showing the horse’s price flaked out momentarily.
    — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 1 May 2026
Definition of chuckling
Verb
  • That’s nothing more than a nonsensical, demonizing political narrative spewed by left-wing politicians and their brethren in the progressive chattering class.
    — Michael Zais, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 June 2026
  • Jean’s Beach at the Old Stove Pub The hush-hush purchase of the Old Stove Pub by Max Chodorow had everyone chattering for months.
    — Nancy Kane, Curbed, 25 June 2026
Definition of chattering
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  • From the outset of the selloff earlier this year, Jim Cramer was screaming from the rooftops that cyber should never have been lumped into run-of-the-mill enterprise software.
    — Zev Fima, CNBC, 7 July 2026
  • There were no vendors hawking bootleg royal-wedding merch, no screaming lines of fans, not even that many impromptu sing-alongs (some were solicited by journalists looking for content).
    — Zach Schiffman, Curbed, 6 July 2026
Definition of screaming

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