One way to hold this word: stand in a yard behind a hen house. The sound coming over the fence is high, loud, and chopped into short pieces — not one smooth note, but a run of sharp little cries, one after another. You cannot ignore it and you cannot mistake it for anything else. Every other use of the word is that same sound moved somewhere new: onto a person's laugh, onto a room full of pointless talk, even onto the name for a group of hyenas.
From the word’s history
The word comes from Middle English caclen, and is probably imitative — the word was built to copy the noise itself. Its relatives do the same job: Dutch kakelen, German gackern, Danish kagle.
這個字來自中古英文 caclen，很可能是模仿聲音造出來的：字的發音本身就在學那個叫聲。它在別的語言裡的親戚也是同一招，像荷蘭文 kakelen、德文 gackern、丹麥文 kagle。
Wiktionary 'cackle' (packet evidence, source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1199646296:13846)
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