cackler
(ˈkæklə(r))
[f. cackle v.1 + -er1.]
One who cackles; fig. a tell-tale, tattler, blabber. slang, a fowl.
| a 1400 Cov. Myst. 131 Kytt Cakelere and Colett Crane. 1598 Florio, Gracchione..a chatter, a cackler. 1673 R. Head Canting Acad. 192 A Prigger of the Cacklers. 1730–6 Bailey, Cackler, a Prater, a Tell-tale, a noisy Person; also a humerous word for capons or fowl. 1878 Browning Poets Croisic 92 If they dared Count you a cackler. |