chackle

present singular third person chackles · participle present chackling · participle past chackled · past chackled

1. EnglanddialectalrareTo chatter (to talk or make noise) or chuckle.

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

   1901, Munsey's Magazine, page 916

   4 more examples

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

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

   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.

   1969, The Folk-lore Journal, carol

   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.

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

   "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!"

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