[See -ING2.] That cackles.
a. 1225. [see CACKLE sb. 1].
1567. Harman, Caveat, 86. She hath a Cacling chete [i.e., a hen].
1622. Fletcher, Beggar’s Bush, V. i. Or surprising a boor’s ken for grunting-cheats? Or cackling-cheats?
1674. Flatman, Belly God, 29. Pluck of[f] the cackling head.
1794. Mrs. Piozzi, Synon., II. 174. Ciarlatano means a prating, cackling creature, and answers to our term Quack.
1841. Catlin, N. Amer. Ind. (1844), II. liv. 182. Some hundreds of cackling women and girls bathing.
