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cackler|ˈkæklə(r)| [f. cackle v.1 + -er1.] One who cackles; fig. a tell-tale, tattler, blabber. slang, a fowl.
a1400Cov. Myst. 131 Kytt Cakelere and Colett Crane. 1598Florio, Gracchione..a chatter, a cackler. 1673R. Head Canting Acad. 192 A Prigger of the Cacklers. 1730–6Bailey, Cackler, a Prater, a Tell-tale, a noisy Person; also a humerous word for capons or fowl. 1878Browning Poets Croisic 92 If they dared Count you a cackler. |