"chackle" meaning in English

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Verb

IPA: /ˈt͡ʃækəl/ Forms: chackles [present, singular, third-person], chackling [participle, present], chackled [participle, past], chackled [past]
Rhymes: -ækəl Etymology: Perhaps related to chatter, chuckle or cackle? Etymology templates: {{m|en|chatter}} chatter, {{m|en|chuckle}} chuckle, {{m|en|cackle}} cackle Head templates: {{en-verb}} chackle (third-person singular simple present chackles, present participle chackling, simple past and past participle chackled)
  1. (England, dialectal, rare) To chatter (to talk or make noise) or chuckle. Tags: England, dialectal, rare
    Sense id: en-chackle-en-verb-ZCetFHnz Categories (other): English English, English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1661, Robert Lovell, Panzooryktologia: Sive Panzoologicomineralogia, or a Compleat History",
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          "ref": "1901, Munsey's Magazine, page 916",
          "text": "\"The Lord hath delivered-- do you ever bet?\" he chackled.",
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          "ref": "1969, The Folk-lore Journal, carol",
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          "ref": "2010, Liz Spooner, Jacqui Woodcock, Teaching Children to Listen: A practical approach to developing children's listening skills, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 109",
          "text": "Her dressed in Grandma's jarberlunks, got into her trinkle and settled down to wait. Red Riding Hood walked jebblydove along the path, through the jonkeyhaze and finally reached Grandma's cottage. She chackled at the door and went in.",
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          "ref": "2012, Steven Erikson, The Devil Delivered and Other Tales, Macmillan, page 303",
          "text": "\"So you've finally come back to me, eh Grandma Matchie?\" Lunker chackled. \"You haven't been down here since I threw you out of my court two thousand years ago!\" Grandma atchie chackled right back. \"An it's bin feelin pretty empty e'er since, I bet!\"",
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