Crossword clues for magpie
magpie
- Image splashed over page, one in black and white
- Heckle or Jeckle of cartoondom
- Crow cousin
- Crow relative
- Crow family bird
- Member of the crow family
- Black & white bird
- Scavenging bird
- Chatty flier
- Black/white bird
- One of these for sorrow, two for joy?
- One of the crows
- Mischievous bird
- Collecting bird
- British warship or a fine feathered friend
- Bird that can recognize itself in a mirror
- Bird — obsessive collector
- Chatterbox
- Trinket stealer
- Noisy bird
- Rossini's "The Thieving ___"
- Heckle or Jeckle of cartoons
- Relative of a crow
- Raucous bird
- Bird in the crow family
- Long-tailed black-and-white bird that utters a chattering call
- Someone who collects things that have been discarded by others
- Chatterer
- Wise men entertaining prince with European bird
- Shaman carrying holy bird
- Long-tailed crow
- Power for Thatcher's second government? It'll mean sorrow for some
- Black-and-white bird
- Bird - obsessive collector
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Magpie \Mag"pie\, n. [OE. & Prov. E. magot pie, maggoty pie, fr. Mag, Maggot, equiv. to Margaret, and fr. F. Marquerite, and common name of the magpie. Marguerite is fr. L. margarita pearl, Gr. ?, prob. of Eastern origin. See Pie magpie, and cf. the analogous names Tomtit, and Jackdaw.] (Zo["o]l.) Any one of numerous species of the genus Pica and related genera, allied to the jays, but having a long graduated tail.
2. Any one of several black-and-white birds, such as Gymnorhina tibicen, not belonging to the genus Pica.
Note: The common European magpie ( Pica pica, or Pica caudata) is a black and white noisy and mischievous bird. It can be taught to speak. The American magpie ( Pica Hudsonica) is very similar. The yellow-belled magpie ( Pica Nuttalli) inhabits Californi
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The blue magpie ( Cyanopolius Cooki) inhabits Spain. Other allied species are found in Asia. The Tasmanian and Australian magpies are crow shrikes, as the white magpie ( Gymnorhina organicum), the black magpie ( Strepera fuliginosa), and the Australian magpie ( Cracticus picatus).
3. A talkative person; a chatterbox.
Magpie lark (Zo["o]l.), a common Australian bird ( Grallina picata), conspicuously marked with black and white; -- called also little magpie.
Magpie moth (Zo["o]l.), a black and white European geometrid moth ( Abraxas grossulariata); the harlequin moth. Its larva feeds on currant and gooseberry bushes.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
the common European bird, known for its chattering, c.1600, earlier simply pie (early 13c.); first element from Mag, nickname for Margaret, long used in proverbial and slang English for qualities associated generally with women, especially in this case "idle chattering" (as in Magge tales "tall tales, nonsense," early 15c.; also compare French margot "magpie," from Margot, pet form of Marguerite).\n
\nSecond element, pie, is the earlier name of the bird, from Old French pie, from Latin pica "magpie," fem. of picus "woodpecker," from PIE root *(s)peik- "woodpecker, magpie" (cognates: Umbrian peica "magpie," Sanskrit pikah "Indian cuckoo," Old Norse spætr, German Specht "woodpecker"); possibly from PIE root *pi-, denoting pointedness, of the beak, perhaps, but the magpie also has a long, pointed tail. The birds are proverbial for pilfering and hoarding, can be taught to speak, and have been regarded since the Middle Ages as ill omens.Whan pyes chatter vpon a house it is a sygne of ryghte euyll tydynges. [1507]Divination by number of magpies is attested from c.1780 in Lincolnshire; the rhyme varies from place to place, the only consistency being that one is bad, two are good.
Wiktionary
n. 1 One of several kinds of bird in the family Corvidae 2 # especially ''Pica pica''. 3 A superficially similar Australian bird, (taxlink Gymnorhina tibicen species noshow=1), now (taxlink Cracticus tibicen species noshow=1). 4 Someone who displays a magpie-like quality such as collecting, or committing robbery. 5 (context slang English) Fan or member of (w: Newcastle United F.C.)
WordNet
Wikipedia
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Magpie was a British children's television programme shown on ITV from 30 July 1968 to 6 June 1980. It was a magazine format show intended to compete with the BBC's Blue Peter, but attempted to be more "hip", focusing more on popular culture. The show's creators Lewis Rudd and Sue Turner named the programme Magpie as a reference to the magpie's habit of collecting small items, and because of "mag" being evocative of " magazine", and "pie" being evocative of a collection of ingredients.
Magpie may refer to:
Magpie is an American folk music duo. Established in 1973 by Terry Leonino and Greg Artzner in Kent, Ohio, the band's repertoire focuses on topical music and social activism.
Usage examples of "magpie".
Madame Alp and, so as not to be ogled for free by the gathered gawks, went to wait in the tent wagon, where she could be company for Magpie Maggie Hag, still enfeebled by her premonitions or whatever was ailing her.
Elsewhere, Yount was helping Sarah kindle a campfire with some dead weed stalks, and Clover Lee and Magpie Maggie Hag were moving about the lot, bent over, apparently in search of more substantial burnables.
Florian went to the far side of it and gave the fish to Magpie Maggie Hag.
Edge and Yount would have suspected it was the old circus gypsy doing some kind of impersonation, except that Magpie Maggie Hag now came from the other side of the tent, carrying a tiny cupcake on which stood a single candle.
Madame Magpie Maggie Hag, who will move among you during the interval.
Main Street across the fairground and into the tent, Florian, Edge, Yount and Magpie Maggie Hag sat together in the shade of the tent wagon.
Because Magpie Maggie Hag had only begun on the new costumes, Yount had contrived one of his own.
He still wore his old army boots, gray trousers and tunic with CSA brass buttons, but Magpie Maggie Hag had found for him somewhere a cocked hat, and stuck in it a huge plume that made him look as dandified as the notorious fops Stuart and Custer.
Mullenax, regarding Edge the way rube women regarded Magpie Maggie Hag when she spoke oracles.
Harrisonburg, Magpie Maggie Hag had finished the new ring dress for Edge and Yount.
Sarah, Clover Lee and Magpie Maggie Hag up the long and curving staircase.
When Edge went to spread his bedroll in the open, under the stars, only Phoebe and Magpie Maggie Hag were still awake, sitting together beside the embers of the fire, conversing in murmurs.
Phoebe had waddled off to her wagon, Magpie Maggie Hag stayed awake most of the night, to look in on Rouleau at intervals.
Maggie Magpie Hag, who stayed to look after Rouleau, and Hannibal, who stayed to guard everything else.
So, after some days, when Magpie Maggie Hag had cut and sewn acrobat outfits for the three and they were decently covered, they were allowed out of the wagon to mingle with their new colleagues, and Quashee fed them when he fed Hannibal, and they returned to the museum only to sleep.