Tackled vs Cackled - What's the difference?
tackled | cackled |
(tackle)
Made of ropes tacked together.
* Shakespeare
(cackle)
The cry of a hen or goose, especially when laying an egg
A laugh resembling the cry of a hen or goose.
To make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does.
* Shakespeare
To laugh with a broken sound similar to a hen's cry.
*, title=The Mirror and the Lamp
, chapter=2 To talk in a silly manner; to prattle.
As verbs the difference between tackled and cackled
is that tackled is past tense of tackle while cackled is past tense of cackle.As an adjective tackled
is made of ropes tacked together.tackled
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(-)- My man shall be with thee, / And bring thee cords made like a tackled stair.
cackled
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Verb
(head)Anagrams
*cackle
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Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en-verb)- When every goose is cackling .
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.}}
- (Johnson)