Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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chatter | Yes | No | Yes | No |
cackle | Yes | No | Yes | No |
chatter (noun) | cackle (noun) |
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noisy talk | a loud laugh suggestive of a hen's cackle |
the high-pitched continuing noise made by animals (birds or monkeys) | noisy talk |
the rapid series of noises made by the parts of a machine | the sound made by a hen after laying an egg |
chatter (verb) | cackle (verb) |
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speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | emit a loud, unpleasant kind of laughing |
talk socially without exchanging too much information | squawk shrilly and loudly, characteristic of hens |
make noise as if chattering away | talk or utter in a cackling manner |
cut unevenly with a chattering tool | make a noise characteristic of a goose |
click repeatedly or uncontrollably |