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cackly - like the cackles or squawks a hen makes especially after laying an egg

squawky

cacophonic, cacophonous - having an unpleasant sound; "as cacophonous as a henyard"- John McCarten

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I was worried that it was going to be pink, cackly and shiny - like, 'Yeah, go girls, we're so brilliant, high five

Still fun at 40; WEEK WATCH A few years ago, Angela Griffin felt she'd gone 'out of fashion', but the jobs are rolling in now - not that she's about to rest on her laurels. She talks to Gemma Dunn about cellulite, how she explains being away for work to her kids, and why she's determined to look good at 40

About the $500 studio apartment she rented, she says, "I worried I was being kind of indulgent, that if I'd spent less I could have had more time and money for dance," and lets out a big, cackly laugh at the fairy-tale absurdity of paying only $500 for an apartment in San Francisco.