Magpie Definition
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noun
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Any of several jaylike corvids characterized by black-and-white coloring, a long, tapering tail, and a habit of noisy chattering.
Webster's New World
Any of various birds of the family Corvidae having a long tail and black, blue, or green plumage with white markings, and noted for their chattering call, especially Pica hudsonia, of western North America, and P. pica, of Eurasia and Africa.
American Heritage
Any of various birds that resemble the magpie.
American Heritage
A person who chatters.
Webster's New World
A person who collects odds and ends.
Webster's New World
Other Word Forms of Magpie
Noun
Singular:
magpie
Plural:
magpiesOrigin of Magpie
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From Mag, a nickname for Margaret that was used to denote a chatterer, and pie, an archaic word meaning "magpie", from Old French pie, from Latin pica, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peik- (“woodpecker, magpie").
From Wiktionary
Mag a name used in proverbs about chatterers (a nickname for Margaret) pie
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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