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chackling

chackling is the present participle and gerund of chackle.

Meaning of chackle

Verb

chackle (third-person singular simple present chackles, present participle chackling, simple past and past participle chackled)

  1. (England, dialectal, rare) To chatter (to talk or make noise) or chuckle.
    • […] 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

Questions about chackling

What is chackling the present participle and gerund of?
Chackling is the present participle and gerund of chackle.

Words near chackling in the dictionary

  1. chacked
  2. chacking
  3. chackle
  4. chackled
  5. chackles
  6. chackling
  7. Chackmore
  8. Chacko
  9. Chackos
  10. chacks
  11. chacma

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