cackle

Noun

• a loud laugh suggestive of a hen's cackle

• noisy talk

• the sound made by a hen after laying an egg

Verb

• emit a loud, unpleasant kind of laughing

• squawk shrilly and loudly, characteristic of hens

• talk or utter in a cackling manner
  • The women cackled when they saw the movie star step out of the limousine
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  yak , yack , yakety-yak , chatter