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Word: Magpie
Speech Type: Noun
late 16th century: probably shortening of dialect maggot the pie, maggoty-pie, from Magot(Middle English pet form of the given name Marguerite) + pie
ˈmaɡpʌɪ
a long-tailed crow with boldly marked (or green) plumage and a noisy call.
Short Definition:long-tailed crow
any bird of the Australasian butcher-bird family, having black-and-white plumage and musical calls.
Short Definition:Australasian bird
used figuratively to refer to a person who obsessively collects things or who chatters idly
Short Definition:collector or chatterer
Examples:- his father was a garrulous old man who chattered like a magpie
- he would carry these documents home to appease his secretive magpie instinct
the division of a circular target next to the outer one, or a shot which strikes this.
Short Definition:part of target
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