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Gaggle

To make a noise like a goose; to cackle.

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Cackle 76% connected

To make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Flock 76% connected

A company or collection of living creatures; -- especially applied to sheep and birds, rarely to persons or (except in the plural) to cattle and othe…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Cackle 74% connected

To make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Cackle 74% connected

To make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Goose 70% connected

Any large web-footen bird of the subfamily Anserinae, and belonging to Anser, Branta, Chen, and several allied genera. See Anseres.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Cackle 92% connected

To make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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