Meaning of kackle | Babel Free

Definitions

To make a kackle while jerking the head, signalling appeasement.

Examples

“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.”

“The tip of the shaft has a whipping of sinew-braid 1¾ inches deep, “kackled” down on both edges, one end of the twine on each edge, so that the hitch made by one end crosses the round turn of the other, making in all twenty-six turns.”

“A bird 'kackling' while alighting may be ignored or greeted in return with weak 'kackles' and headjerks.”

“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.”

“But when the dirt gets in the needle valve, and the Doldrum .60 crackles and kackles, and that sneaky warp comes back again — well, let it happen on enough week-ends — and you'll even consider putting up the storm windows.”

“Moralizing statements are now only half serious—'We men are somewhat akin to laying Hens: for if we mind to doe any good, we presently proclaime and kackle it abroad . . .” (The Pursuit, p. 62)—as the world itself has become more chaotic.”

“When we kackle like your uncle Sal at "Yey Whazzup Make Up" by Pssing Stones, the sublime recontextualized Rolling Stones' video (by StS, the same genius that brought us the "Shreds" Youtube^([sic]) clips) that in its endgame brings us the hyper-reality of a bunch of absurd middle-aged rock dinosaurs chump-changing us with a cardboard-cut-out-cartoon-rebellion with even less fiber and nutrition than that Cinnamon Toast Crunch enema I mentioned earlier, we inch closer to a resolve of the problems brought by your sides aching of convulsive laughter upon repeated viewing of the Hitler lip where he finds out about Oasis canceling their tour.”

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