2. telegram, cablegram, telegraph; message, news. -v. 3. telegraph, wire, radio, radiograph.
cache, n. 1. hiding place, dead drop, hole, hideout; crypt, vault, repository.
2. hoard, wealth, supply, store, garner; kitty, fund, collection, savings, nest egg; hidden treasure, loot.
-v. 3. conceal, hide, secrete, cover, bury; store, put away, Inf. stash, squirrel or squirrel away, SI. sock away, save.
cackle, v. 1. cluck, chuckle, click, clack; crow, quack.
2. chuckle, chortle, giggle; titter, twitter, te-hee, snicker, snigger.
3. chatter noisily, prattle, jabber, gibber, SI. gibber-jabber, jargon; babble, prate, tattle, twaddle, Brit. twattle; patter, gabble, blather, drivel; chit-chat, chitter-chatter, chaffer, bandy words; gossip, buzz, talk idly, SI. shoot the breeze, SI. gas, Inf. gab, SI. bull; palaver, clack, clatter, rattle, SI. run off or on at the mouth; gush, blab, Inf. spout, be loquacious or talkative.
-n. 4. cackling, cluck, clucking, chuckle, chuckling, click, clicking, clack, clacking; crow, crowing, quack, quacking.
5. chuckle, chuckling, chortle, chortling, giggle, giggling, broken laughter; titter, tittering, twitter, twittering, Inf. te-hee; snicker, snickering, snigger, sniggering.
6. idle talk, small talk, chatter, chattering, Anglo-Indian. bukh; chit-chat, chit-chatting, chitter-chatter, gossip, blab, blabbing, Inf. gab; cackling, gibber, gibbering, SI. gibber-jabbering; babble, babbling, babblement, Fr. bqvardage, blather, blathering, rapid and inarticulate talk; twaddle, twaddling, Brit, twattle, Brit. twattling, drivel, driveling; prate, prating, tattle, tattling, excessive talk; gushing, Inf. spouting, SI. running off or on at the mouth; rambling, maundering.
cacophonous, adj. harsh, grating, raucous, jarring, strident, screechy, screaky; absonant, dissonant, discordant, inharmonious, unmelodious.
cacophony, n. dissonance, discord, discordance, jar; stridency, grating, jangle, croaking, rasping, caterwauling.
cad, n. rascal, rapscallion, rogue, scamp; knave, scoundrel, Inf. heel, Archaic, caitiff, dastard, worm; boor, churl, bear, Chiefly Brit. SI. bounder, vulgarian, miscreant; jilter, two-timer, double-crosser, cheater; buck, blade, playboy, ladies' man, man about town, SI. lover boy, philanderer.