CACKLE, CACKLING
NOUNS
1600 — KEAK a cackle; cackling → obs.
1820 — KECKLE a cackling, a short, spasmodic laugh; a chuckle → Sc.
VERBS
1513 — KECKLE KECK to cackle, to cluck; said of a hen or other bird
1545 — KEAK to cackle → obs.
1545 — KEEK KECK → KEKE KECK to cackle → obs.
1741 — CANK to cackle as geese; to talk rapidly, to chatter → Eng. dial.
1788 — CAKE to cackle as a goose, or as a hen wanting to sit → Eng. dial.
1844 — KECK to cackle, to cluck; said of a bird
1885 — GAGGLE to cackle; to laugh immoderately → Sc. & Eng. dial.
Lexicophilia 