different between smile vs cackle

English

Etymology

From Middle English smilen (“to smile”), from Old Norse smíla (“to smile”) (compare Danish smile, Swedish smila (“to smile”)), from Proto-Germanic *sm?lijan?, *smir?n? (“to smile”), from Proto-Indo-European *smey- (“to laugh, be glad, wonder”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian smielje (“to smile”), Low German smielen (“to smile”), Dutch smuilen (“to smile”), Middle High German smielen (“to smile”). Related also to Old High German smier?n (“to smile”), Old English smerian (“to laugh at”), Old English smercian, smearcian ("to smile"; > English smirk), Latin miror (“to wonder at”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sma?l/, /?sma?.?l/
• Rhymes: -a?l

Noun

smile (plural smiles)

1. A facial expression comprised by flexing the muscles of both ends of one's mouth, often showing the front teeth, without vocalisation, and in humans is a common involuntary or voluntary expression of happiness, pleasure, amusement, goodwill, or anxiety.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:smile

   • Captain Edward Carlisle, soldier as he was, martinet as he was, felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, her alluring smile; he could not tell what this prisoner might do.

2. (figuratively) Favour; propitious regard.

3. (slang, dated) A drink bought by one person for another.

   Synonym: treat

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

smile (third-person singular simple present smiles, present participle smiling, simple past and past participle smiled)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To have (a smile) on one's face.
2. (transitive) To express by smiling.

3. (intransitive) To express amusement, pleasure, or love and kindness.
4. (intransitive) To look cheerful and joyous; to have an appearance suited to excite joy.
5. (intransitive) To be propitious or favourable; to countenance.

Derived terms

• smiler

Translations

Anagrams

• Imels, Liems, Miles, limes, miles, milse, misle, slime

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse smíla (“to smile”), from Proto-Germanic *sm?lijan?, *smir?n? (“to smile”), from Proto-Indo-European *smey- (“to laugh, be glad, wonder”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /smi?lø/, [?smi??l?]
• Rhymes: -i?l?

Verb

smile (imperative smil, infinitive at smile, present tense smiler, past tense smilede, perfect tense har smilet)

1. to smile

Related terms

• smil

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

smile (imperative smil, present tense smiler, simple past smilte, past participle smilt, present participle smilende)

1. to smile

   smile fra øre til øre - grin from ear to ear

   Smil til kameraet. - Smile for the camera.

Related terms

• smil (noun)

References

• “smile” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

English

Etymology

From Middle English caclen, cakelen. Compare Dutch kakelen (“to cackle”), German Low German kakeln (“to cackle”), German kakeln (“to blather”), Danish kagle (“to cackle”), Swedish kackla (“to cackle”). Compare also Old English cahhetan, ?eahhettan (“to laugh loudly; cackle”), German gackern (“to cackle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kæk?l/
• Rhymes: -æk?l

Noun

cackle (countable and uncountable, plural cackles)

1. The cry of a hen or goose, especially when laying an egg.
2. A laugh resembling the cry of a hen or goose.
3. Futile or excessively noisy talk.
   • 1930, Frank Richards, The Magnet, All Quiet on the Greyfriars Front

     There's no time to waste on silly cackle.

4. A group of hyenas.

Translations

Verb

cackle (third-person singular simple present cackles, present participle cackling, simple past and past participle cackled)

1. (intransitive) To make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does.
2. (intransitive) To laugh with a broken sound similar to a hen's cry.

3. (intransitive) To talk in a silly manner; to prattle.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Johnson to this entry?)

4. (transitive, gambling, slang) To pretend to rattle (dice) in one's hand while gripping them so that they maintain their orientation.
   • 1941, Mignon Good Eberhart, The Third Mystery Book: Six Short Mysteries (page 120)

     Danny cackled the dice furiously in his cupped hand, then rolled them so they stopped inches from Slattery's hands. The result was the same as before - a seven.

   • 2015, Jack Engelhard, The Prince of Dice (page 11)

     […] they spun all right, or so it seemed, and hit the wall all right, or so it seemed, but bottom line was this: The stirring of the dice was merely cackling, the cubes artfully framed so that the spots in the kid's fists showed 4?4 up?right and weren't really rattled but rather, held in control by the pinky, forefinger and thumb; […]

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:laugh

Translations

See also

• cluck