The Collaborative International Dictionary
Maggot-pie
Maggot-pie \Mag"got-pie`\, n.
A magpie. [Obs.]
--Shak.
Usage examples of "maggot-pie".
Augurs and understood relations have By maggot-pies and choughs and rooks brought forth The secret'st man of blood.
Then there were stuffed birds, popinjays, and maggot-pies and kingfishers, and peacocks with all their feathers but two, and tiny birds like beetles, and a reputed phoenix which smelt of incense and cinnamon.