chackle

English

Etymology

Perhaps related to chatter, chuckle or cackle?

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃækəl/
• Rhymes: -ækəl

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.
   • 1661, Robert Lovell, Panzooryktologia: Sive Panzoologicomineralogia, or a Compleat History:

     […] calling in partridges, gagleing in geese, groaning in pigeons and turtles, crowing in cocks, chackling and clucking in [hens] […]

   • 1901, Munsey's Magazine, page 916:

     "The Lord hath delivered-- do you ever bet?" he chackled.

   • 1969, The Folk-lore Journal, carol:

     The cock sat up in the yew-tree, The hen came chackling by, I wish you all good morning, And a good fat pig in the sty.

   • 2010, Liz Spooner, Jacqui Woodcock, Teaching Children to Listen: A practical approach to developing children's listening skills, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 109:

     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.

   • 2012, Steven Erikson, The Devil Delivered and Other Tales, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 303:

     "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!"