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Cackling vs Chuckling - What's the difference?

cackling | chuckling |

As verbs the difference between cackling and chuckling

is that cackling is present participle of lang=en while chuckling is present participle of chuckle.

As nouns the difference between cackling and chuckling

is that cackling is a sound that cackles while chuckling is an instance in which someone chuckles.

cackling

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sound that cackles.

    • Anagrams

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    chuckling

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (gerund of chuckle) An instance in which someone chuckles
  • * {{quote-news, 1988, January 22, Henry Sheehan, Little Boy Blue, Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=The shocked silence of the grown-ups is disturbed by the chucklings of the one hipster among them