[f. CACKLE v.1 + -ER1.] One who cackles; fig. a tell-tale, tattler, blabber. slang. A fowl.

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a. 1400.  Cov. Myst., 131. Kytt Cakelere and Colett Crane.

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1598.  Florio, Gracchione … a chatter, a cackler.

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1673.  R. Head, Canting Acad., 192. A Prigger of the Cacklers.

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1730–6.  Bailey, Cackler, a Prater, a Tell-tale, a noisy Person; also a humerous word for capons or fowl.

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1878.  Browning, Poets Croisic, 92. If they dared Count you a cackler.

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