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English

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Eurasian magpie (Pica pica) (sense 1)

Australian magpie (sense 2), Gymnorhina tibicen

Etymology

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From Mag, a nickname for Margaret that was used to denote a chatterer, + archaic pie (“magpie”), from Middle English pie, pye, from Old French pie, from Latin pīca, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peyk- (“woodpecker, magpie”). Displaced native Old English agu (“magpie”) and Middle English aguster (“magpie”), whence English haggister.

Pronunciation

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IPA(key): /ˈmæɡˌpaɪ/
Audio (General Australian): (file)
Hyphenation: mag‧pie

Noun

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magpie (plural magpies)

One of several kinds of bird in the family Corvidae, especially Pica pica. Synonyms: (dialectal) haggister, maggie, Eurasian magpie, European magpie, common magpie, (obsolete) pica, (regional) pie, piet
A superficially similar Australian bird, Gymnorhina tibicen, in the family Artamidae.
(figurative) Someone who displays a magpie-like quality such as hoarding or stealing objects.
- 2005 April 15, Michiko Kakutani, “The Plot Thins, or Are No Stories New?”, in The New York Times‎[1], →ISSN:Not only is Mr. Booker a voracious magpie (who does not always acknowledge the sources of his ideas), but he also turns out to be an annoyingly biased and didactic one.
(slang) A fan or member of Newcastle United F.C.
(UK, firearms) In the sport of fullbore target rifle, The third circle on a target, between the inner and outer.
(UK, slang, obsolete) A halfpenny.
(attributively) A pattern resembling the pied plumage of a magpie.
- 1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Phantom Rickshaw”, in The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Tales, Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler and Co., page 12:Kitty and I were engaged. The next day I met those accursed “magpie” Jhampanies at the back of Jakko, and, moved by some passing sentiment of pity, stopped to tell Mrs. Wessington everything.
- 1889, Henry White, The Record of My Life: An Autobiography, Cheltenham: Henry White, page 60:The worst part of my experience in this magpie livery was yet to come, for I was to appear in it the next day at church.

Derived terms

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Australian magpie Cracticus tibicen or Gymnorhina tibicen
azure-winged magpie (Cyanopica cyanus)
bell-magpie (Strepera spp.)
black-billed magpie (Pica hudsonia)
black magpie (Platysmurus leucopterus)
blue magpie (Urocissa spp.)
Eurasian magpie (Pica pica)
green magpie (Cissa spp.)
holarctic magpie (Pica pica)
Iberian magpie (Cyanopica cooki)
Korean magpie (Pica sericea, syn. Pica pica sericea)
Magpie Festival
magpie goose (Anseranas semipalmata)
magpie inkcap (Coprinopsis picacea)
magpieish
magpie-jay (Cyanocorax colliei, C. formosus)
magpie-lark (Grallina cyanoleuca)
magpielike
magpie moth
magpie-robin (Copsychus spp.)
magpie shrike (Urolestes melanoleucus)
magpie tanager (Cissopis leverianus)
Murray magpie (Grallina cyanoleuca)
oriental magpie (Pica serica)
sea-magpie (Haematopus spp.)
yellow-billed magpie (Pica nuttalli)

Translations

[edit] bird of genus Pica

Albanian: laraskë (sq) f, grizhël (sq) f
Altai: Southern Altai: сагыскан (sagïskan), саҥыскан (saŋïskan)
Arabic: عَقْعَق m (ʕaqʕaq) Moroccan Arabic: بلْعڭاڭ m (bələgæg)
Armenian: կաչաղակ (hy) (kačʻaġak)
Asturian: pega (ast) f
Azerbaijani: sağsağan (az)
Bashkir: һайыҫҡан (hayıśqan)
Basque: mika, pika
Belarusian: саро́ка f (saróka)
Breton: pig (br)
Bulgarian: свра́ка (bg) f (svráka)
Catalan: garsa (ca) f
Chechen: къорзакъиг (qʼorzaqʼig)
Chinese: Cantonese: 喜鵲 / 喜鹊 (hei2 zoek3-2) Dungan: щичё (xiči͡o), җичё (žiči͡o) Mandarin: 喜鵲 / 喜鹊 (zh) (xǐque)
Cornish: piesen f
Crimean Tatar: savusqan
Czech: straka (cs) f
Danish: skade (da) c
Dutch: ekster (nl) m
Esperanto: (♂) pigo (eo), (♀) pigino
Estonian: harakas (et)
Faroese: skjóra
Finnish: harakka (fi)
French: pie (fr) f
Frisian: North Frisian: haister f (Karrharde, Northern Goesharde, Wiedinhgarde), Haister f (Sylt), heister f or n (Föhr-Amrum), schåå f (Ockholm) Saterland Frisian: Akster m West Frisian: ekster (fy)
Friulian: cheche
Gagauz: saksaan
Galician: pega (gl) f, picacrega f, picaza (gl) f, marica f, poupa (gl) f
Georgian: კაჭკაჭი (ḳač̣ḳač̣i)
German: Elster (de) f
Greek: καρακάξα (el) f (karakáxa)
Hebrew: עַקְעָק m
Hindi: अधेला (hi) m (adhelā)
Hungarian: szarka (hu)
Icelandic: skjór (is) m
Ido: (♂♀) pigo (io), (♂) pigulo, (♀) pigino
Indonesian: murai (id)
Irish: snag breac m, meaig f
Italian: gazza (it) f
Japanese: 鵲 (ja) (かささぎ, カササギ, kasasagi)
Kaitag: вяркъкъя (vərɢɢə)
Kalmyk: шаазһа (şaazğa)
Kazakh: сауысқан (sauysqan)
Korean: 까치 (ko) (kkachi)
Kumyk: савусгъан (sawusğan), лакълакъи (laqlaqi) (dialectal)
Kurdish: Central Kurdish: قِشقەڵە (qişqelle) Northern Kurdish: qijik (ku)
Kyrgyz: сагызган (ky) (sagızgan)
Ladin: gacia f
Latgalian: žogota f
Latin: pīca f
Latvian: žagata f
Lithuanian: šarka (lt) f
Low German: Heister (nds) m, Hääkster (nds) m, Heckster (nds) m, Heekster (nds) m, Hester (nds) m East Frisian Low German: eekster m, heekster m (eastern)
Lushootseed: ʔadʔad
Macedonian: страчка f (stračka), сврака f (svraka)
Maltese: cawla bajda f
Manchu: ᠰᠠᡴᠰᠠᡥᠠ (saksaha)
Māori: makipai, timohina
Mazanderani: کور کلاچ (kur kelâč), کشکرت (kaškeret)
Mongolian: шаазгай (mn) (šaazgaj)
Navajo: ąąʼąʼii
Norman: (female) pie f (Jersey), (female) mèrgot f (Jersey), (male) piêté m (Jersey)
Norwegian: Bokmål: skjære (no) m or f Nynorsk: skjor (nn) f
Occitan: agaça (oc) f
Old Church Slavonic: Cyrillic: сврака f (svraka) Glagolitic: ⱄⰲⱃⰰⰽⰰ f (svraka)
Old English: higera f
Pashto: اوږبۍ f (uẓbᶕy), بوږبۍ f (boẓbáy), عکه f (áka)
Persian: زاغ (fa) (zâġ), کلاچه (kalâče), زاغی (fa) (zâġi)
Polish: sroka (pl) f
Portuguese: gralha (pt) f, pega (pt) f
Romani: kakarachi m, kakarachka f
Romanian: coțofană (ro) f
Romansh: giazla
Russian: соро́ка (ru) f (soróka)
Sami: Northern Sami: skire Skolt Sami: soorkõs
Samogitian: žagata f
Sardinian: piga f, malabiga f, mariabiga f, marabiga f
Scottish Gaelic: athaid
Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: свра̏ка f Latin: svrȁka (sh) f
Shor: саасқан (saasqan)
Sicilian: craccarazza (scn) f
Slovak: straka f
Slovene: sráka (sl) f
Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: sroka f Upper Sorbian: sroka f
Spanish: urraca (es) f, picaza (es) f
Swedish: skata (sv)
Tagalog: dominiko
Tajik: акка (akka)
Taos: kwʼàyána
Tatar: саескан (tt) (sayısqan)
Turkish: saksağan (tr)
Turkmen: alahekik (tk)
Udmurt: коӵо (kočo)
Ukrainian: соро́ка (soróka)
Uyghur: سېغىزخان (sëghizxan), سېغىزغان (sëghizghan)
Uzbek: hakka (uz), zagʻizgʻon (uz)
Vietnamese: chim ác là
Vilamovian: ołaoster
Volapük: piak (vo), skadit
Walloon: agaesse (wa) f
Welsh: pïod f pl, pi (cy) m or f, pioden f
Yiddish: סאָראָקע f (soroke)
Zazaki: keçelek, kur kelaç

Pica pica

Albanian: laraskë (sq) f, grizhël (sq) f
Catalan: garsa (ca) f
Danish: husskade c
Finnish: harakka (fi)
French: pie bavarde (fr) f
Galician: pega (gl) f, picacrega f, picaza (gl) f, marica f, poupa (gl) f
German: Elster (de) f
Greek: καρακάξα (el) f (karakáxa)
Latin: pīca f
Mongolian: шаазгай (mn) (šaazgaj), алаг шаазгай (alag šaazgaj)
Norwegian: Bokmål: skjære (no) m or f Nynorsk: skjor (nn) f
Spanish: urraca (es) f, marica (es) f, pega (es) f
Tanana: Lower Tanana: dotron' bozra
Welsh: pïod f pl

Australian bird, Gymnorhina tibicen

Adnyamathanha: urrakurli
Arrernte: Eastern Arrernte: arrpwere
Barngarla: birala, goorra
Burarra: durrowturrow
Chinese: Mandarin: 黑背鍾鵲 / 黑背钟鹊 (hēi bèi zhōng què)
Dutch: zwartrugfluitvogel (nl) m
Finnish: isohuiluvaris (fi)
French: cassican flûteur (fr) m
Gamilaraay: burrugaabu, galalu, guluu
Gurindji: kumurlawurta, kumurlawurru
Guugu Yimidhirr: gurradhuwaar
Iwaidja: narrarti
Japanese: カササギフエガラス (kasasagifuegarasu)
Kaurna: kurraka
Australian Kriol: megpai, bujabed
Māori: makipai, timohina
Martu Wangka: kurrpanyji, kurrparu
Narungga: murru
Ngarinman: gumurlawurda
Ngarrindjeri: konlarru, muldhari, tilitili
Norwegian: Bokmål: plystreskjære m or f Nynorsk: plystreskjor f
Polish: dzierzbowron (pl) m
Warlpiri: kumarlawurru, kurrparu, kurrpurlardi, warntukurr-pari, yakurlajirri
Wiradjuri: booroogong, garoogong
Woiwurrung: paRawuRung
Yindjibarndi: warndurla

Verb

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magpie (third-person singular simple present magpies, present participle magpieing, simple past and past participle magpied)

(transitive) To mark with patches of black and white or light and dark. Synonym: mottle
- 1914, Oliver Onions, Mushroom Town‎[2], New York: George H. Doran, Part 4, Chapter 3, pp. 292-293:The little rail-enclosed plots that lay between the pavements and the hotels were magpied with torn paper […]
- 1952, Michael McLaverty, chapter 15, in Truth in the Night‎[3], Dublin: Poolbeg, published 1986, page 179:[…] she stood at the window and saw the lake blue with spring and a few patches of snow that magpied the hills.
- 1963, Alan Garner, chapter 8, in The Moon of Gomrath‎[4], New York: Collins, published 1979, page 64:[…] they looked down upon Highmost Redmanhey, timber and plaster magpied by the moon, and a lamp in the window of the room where Susan lay.
- 1979, Jack S. Scott, chapter 6, in A Clutch of Vipers,‎[5], New York: Harper & Row, page 76:[…] young Inspector Cruse arrived at the Dun Cow, entering through a door tricked out as Tudor and set into a façade magpied with white paint and nailed-on beams […]
(ambitransitive) To steal or hoard (items) as magpies are believed to do.
- 1924, Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not ...‎[6], Part 2, Chapter 1:[…] she liked to be able to have a picturesque fact or two with which to support herself when she too, to hold attention, wanted to issue moving statements as to revolutions, anarchies and strife in the offing. And she had noticed that when she magpied Tietjens’ conversations more serious men in responsible positions were apt to argue with her and to pay her more attention than before....
- 1999, Peter Straub, chapter 131, in Mr. X‎[7], New York: Random House, page 469:“I had to borrow those photographs Aunt Nettie was storing in her closet.”“Isn’t that interesting?” May said. “I have to say, I never did understand why Mrs. Hatch asked me to magpie them out of the library.”
- 2012, Alice Hart, Friends at My Table‎[8], London: Quadrille, page 175:I have magpied from here and there, borrowing influences from Morocco, Greece, Italy and my notebooks to end up with a handful of easy little dishes that complement each other.
(intransitive) To talk idly; to talk about other people's private business. Synonyms: chatter, gossip
- 1978, Jean Rikhoff, Where Were You in ’76?‎[9], New York: Richard Marek Publishers, Book 1, Chapter 2, p. 28:He knew how people were magpieing with their malicious chatter that she had committed the cardinal sin of believing love was permanent […]

Magpie - Wiktionary

Contents

English

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

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