"kackle" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: kackles [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} kackle (plural kackles)
  1. (ornithology) A low raspy noise accompanied by head jerks, used to signal appeasement in some species. Categories (topical): Ornithology
    Sense id: en-kackle-en-noun-GFPGnbyO Topics: biology, natural-sciences, ornithology
  2. Alternative form of cackle Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: cackle Categories (topical): Animal sounds
    Sense id: en-kackle-en-noun-76L~duPf Disambiguation of Animal sounds: 6 36 17 6 36
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Verb

Forms: kackles [present, singular, third-person], kackling [participle, present], kackled [participle, past], kackled [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb}} kackle (third-person singular simple present kackles, present participle kackling, simple past and past participle kackled)
  1. Alternative form of keckle Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: keckle Categories (topical): Animal sounds
    Sense id: en-kackle-en-verb-IiSeS2UT Disambiguation of Animal sounds: 6 36 17 6 36 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 18 15 34 18 15 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 16 11 45 16 11 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 17 8 51 16 8
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Verb

Forms: kackles [present, singular, third-person], kackling [participle, present], kackled [participle, past], kackled [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb}} kackle (third-person singular simple present kackles, present participle kackling, simple past and past participle kackled)
  1. (ornithology) To make a kackle while jerking the head, signalling appeasement. Categories (topical): Ornithology
    Sense id: en-kackle-en-verb-8gb-896n Topics: biology, natural-sciences, ornithology
  2. Alternative form of cackle Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: cackle Categories (topical): Animal sounds
    Sense id: en-kackle-en-verb-76L~duPf Disambiguation of Animal sounds: 6 36 17 6 36
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-11-21 using wiktextract (95d2be1 and 64224ec). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.