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Cackle vs Laughter - What's the difference?

cackle | laughter |

As nouns the difference between cackle and laughter

is that cackle is the cry of a hen or goose, especially when laying an egg while laughter is the sound of laughing, produced by air so expelled; any similar sound.

As a verb cackle

is to make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does.

cackle

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The cry of a hen or goose, especially when laying an egg
  • A laugh resembling the cry of a hen or goose.

    • Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does.
  • * Shakespeare
    • When every goose is cackling .
  • To laugh with a broken sound similar to a hen's cry.
  • *, title=The Mirror and the Lamp
    • , chapter=2 citation , passage=She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid, […]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.}}
  • To talk in a silly manner; to prattle.
    • (Johnson)

    Synonyms

    * See also

    See also

    * cluck

    laughter

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (obsolete)

    Noun

    (wikipedia laughter) (en-noun)
  • The sound of laughing, produced by air so expelled; any similar sound.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1899, author=(Stephen Crane)
    • , title=, chapter=1 , passage=There was some laughter , and Roddle was left free to expand his ideas on the periodic visits of cowboys to the town.}}
  • A movement (usually involuntary) of the muscles of the laughing face, particularly of the lips, and of the whole body, with a peculiar expression of the eyes, indicating merriment, satisfaction or derision, and usually attended by a sonorous and interrupted expulsion of air from the lungs.
  • * (Thomas Browne) (1605-1682)
    • The act of laughter , which is a sweet contraction of the muscles of the face, and a pleasant agitation of the vocal organs, is not merely, or totally within the jurisdiction of ourselves.
  • * (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) (1807-1882)
    • Archly the maiden smiled, and with eyes overrunning with laughter .
  • (label) A reason for merriment.

    • Related terms

    * laugh