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Etymology

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From cackle +‎ -ly.

Adjective

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cackly (comparative more cackly, superlative most cackly)

  1. Resembling or characterised by cackling.
    • 2008 June 10, Jon Pareles, “Rapper’s Road to Pop”, in New York Times[1]:
      His voice rises and falls in a sly, scratchy singsong — no wonder he calls himself Weezy — that can sound like a cackly old man or a wisecracking kid.

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