cackler

A noun referring to a hen that has just laid an egg and emits a shrill squawk, or any of various insectivorous Old World birds with a loud incessant song.

• 🇪🇸Sustantivo que designa a una gallina que acaba de poner un huevo y emite un cacareo estridente, o a cualquiera de varias aves insectívoras del Viejo Mundo con un canto fuerte y continuo.

1. A hen that cackles B2 informal

   A hen that has just laid an egg and emits a shrill, repetitive squawk.

   • The old cackler announced her egg with a loud noise.
   • Every morning, the cackler in the coop wakes the whole farm.
   • The farmer recognized the sound of his prize cackler.

   🇪🇸gallina cacareadora

2. A noisy bird C1 formal british

   Any of various insectivorous Old World birds with a loud, incessant song; sometimes classified in the family Muscicapidae.

   • The cackler's song could be heard from across the valley.
   • Ornithologists studied the migratory patterns of the cackler.
   • A cackler perched on the fence, singing loudly.

   🇪🇸Pájaro charlatán

   Sinónimos: chatstonechatwhinchat

• cacklers plural form
• cacklers' possessive plural form
• cackler's possessive singular form