kackle

名词 n. 动词 v.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A low raspy noise accompanied by head jerks, used to signal appeasement in some species.
    — With mated birds, however, the preening bird was not aggressive and approached the partner with appeasement displays such as Head Jerks, Kackles and ambivalent movements.
  2. Alternative form of cackle. alt-of,alternative
    — As soon as she got outside I heard her kackle, kackle, on to the pantry, where she said to the charwoman, “I never saw or read about or heard tell of such a man.”
动词 v.
  1. Alternative form of keckle. alt-of,alternative
    — The following table also shows the size and length of the hitching for the eye, the size and length of the seizing, the length of rounding for kackling, and the length to kackle each cable.
  2. To make a kackle while jerking the head, signalling appeasement.
    — A bird 'kackling' while alighting may be ignored or greeted in return with weak 'kackles' and headjerks.
  3. Alternative form of cackle. alt-of,alternative
    — They don't kackle like the hen, nor kro like the rooster, nor holler like the peakok, nor scream like the goose, nor turk like the turkey; but they quack like a root dokter, and their bill resembles a vetenary surgeon's.

词形变化

kackles present,singular,third-person kackling participle,present kackled participle,past kackled past kackles plural kackles present,singular,third-person kackling participle,present kackled participle,past kackled past
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