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Definition: Magpie |
MagpieNoun1. Long-tailed black-and-white bird that utters a chattering call. 2. Someone who collects things that have been discarded by others. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "magpie" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1374. (references) |
Etymology: Magpie \Mag"pie\, noun. [from Old English expression Prov. English magot pie, maggoty pie, from Mag, Maggot, equiv. to Margaret, and from French Marquerite, and common name of the magpie. Marguerite is from Latin margarita pearl, Greek, probably of Eastern origin. See Pie magpie, and compare to the analogous names Tomtit, and Jackdaw.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Satire | MAGPIE, n. A bird whose thievish disposition suggested to someone that it might be taught to talk. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of a magpie, denotes much dissatisfaction and quarrels. The dreamer should guard well his conduct and speech after this dream. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Literature | Magpie A contraction of magotpie, or magata-pie. "Mag" is generally thought to be a contraction of Margaret; thus we have Robin red-breast, Tom-tit, Philip- i.e. a sparrow, etc. "Augurs and understood relations have (By magotpies, and choughs, and rooks) brought forth The secretst man of blood." Shakespeare: Macbeth, iii. 4. Magpie. Here is an old Scotch rhyme: "One's sorrow, two's mirth, Three's a wedding, four's a birth Five's a christening, six a death Seven's heaven, eight is hell, And nine's the devil his ane sel'." Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The Australian Magpie (Gymnorhina tibicen) is a medium-sized black and white bird, closely related to the butcherbirds and currawongs. Early European settlers named it for its resemblance to the familiar European Magpie (which is a more distant relative).
Australian Magpie
''Black-backed Magpie,
northern South Australia''.Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Passeriformes Family: Artamidae Genus: Gymnorhina Species: tibicen Binomial name Gymnorhina tibicen Australian Magpies have a musical warbling call of extraordinary beauty. Young magpies, in contrast, screech and squawk almost continuously. Adult magpies have pure black and white plumage: juveniles mix the stark blacks and whites with lighter greys.
There are at least four different subspecies of Australian magpie:
At least two of the races were originally classified as separate species, but they are cross-fertile and hybridise readily. Where their territories cross, hybrid grey or striped-backed magpies are quite common.
- The Black-backed Magpie (Gymnorhina tibicen tibicen) found in Queensland and New South Wales, right across the Top End and most of arid Western Australia. In the future the black-backed race may be further split into four separate races, as there are regional differences between them.
- The White-backed Magpie (G. tibicen leuconata) found in Victoria, South Australia, and outback NSW.
- The Tasmanian Magpie (G. tibicen hypoleuca).
- The Western Magpie (G. tibicen dorsalis) in the fertile south-west corner of Western Australia.
White-backed Magpie, southern Victoria.Magpies tend not to be afraid of people, and they live in urban areas as often as in the bush, so magpies are a familiar sight to most Australians. If magpies are teased or feel threatened while nesting (typically in August-September in southern Australia), they will 'swoop' at their aggressor with their claws extended in an attempt to drive them away. This behaviour has led some people to see magpies as dangerous birds, but they are merely attempting to defend themselves.
The Collingwood Football Club, has taken the magpie as its mascot.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Australian Magpie."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
There are a number of passerine birds in the family Corvidae with the name of magpie.Genus Pica
Genus Urocissa
- European Magpie Pica pica
- American Black-billed Magpie Pica hudsonia
- Yellow-billed Magpie Pica nuttalli
Genus Cyanopica
- Formosan Blue Magpie Urocissa caerulea
- Red-billed Blue Magpie, Urocissa erythrorhyncha
- Gold-billed Magpie, Urocissa flavirostris
- White-winged Magpie, Urocissa whiteheadi
- Ceylon Magpie, Urocissa ornata
Genus Cissa
- Azure-winged Magpie, Cyanopica cyana
The Black Magpie, Platysmurus leucopterus, despite its name, is a jay.
- Green Magpie, Cissa chinensis
- Yellow-breasted Magpie, Cissa hypoleuca
- Short-tailed Magpie, Cissa thalassina
Other corvids resembling magpies include the treepies, genus Dendrocitta.
Black and white birds unrelated to the corvids are often named magpies by analogy. These include:
- Australian Magpie
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Magpie."
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Magpie was a children's television show shown on ITV from the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s. It was a magazine format show intended to compete with the BBC's Blue Peter, but was consciously a much more "hip and trendy" show compared to the BBC's rather old-fashioned "auntie beeb" approach. It focused much more on popular culture - music, fashion, etc than Blue Peter.The show, made by Thames Television, first aired on July 30th, 1968, the first day that Thames broadcast. The show was shown once a week for the first year, but from then on was shown twice a week until it ended in 1980. The first presenters were ex-Radio 1 DJ Pete Brady, Susan Stranks and Tony Bastable. Bastable and Brady left the show in 1972 to be replaced by Mick Robertson and Douglas Rae. Jenny Hanley replaced Susan Stranks in 1974. This lineup remained until 1977, when Tommy Boyd replaced Rae.
Approximately 1000 episodes were made, each of 25 minutes duration.
The show's mascot was Muragtroyd Magpie, and the rocking theme tune was based around the old children's nursery rhyme "One for sorrow, Two for joy..."
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Magpie (TV show)."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
MAGPIE | English | Mega Ampere Generator for Plasma Implosion Experiments | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: MagpieSynonyms: pack rat (n), scavenger (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Loquacity | Talker; chatterer, chatterbox; babbler; Verb: rattle; ranter; sermonizer, proser, driveler; blatherskite; gossip; (converse); magpie, jay, parrot, poll, Babel; moulin a paroles. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Magpie |
| English words defined with "magpie": American magpie ♦ Corvidae ♦ European magpie ♦ family Corvidae, French pie ♦ Harlequin moth ♦ Madge, Maggot-pie, Magot-pie, Magpie lark ♦ Nanpie, Ninut ♦ Pianet, Pica pica, Pica pica hudsonia, Piet, Piot, Pyet, Pyot ♦ Tree pie. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "magpie": Chatterpie, Cock and Pie ♦ Margaret. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "magpie": Pyet. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Magpie (1968) The Magpie (1917) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Theater & Movies | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Magpie. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Magpie" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 83.50% of the time. "Magpie" is used about 103 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 83.5% | 86 | 35,638 |
| Noun (proper) | 16.5% | 17 | 85,106 |
| Total | 100.00% | 103 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "magpie": american magpie ♦ australian magpie ♦ be a magpie ♦ bell magpie ♦ chatter like a magpie ♦ european magpie ♦ little magpie ♦ Magpie lark ♦ Magpie moth ♦ mountain magpie ♦ she is a regular magpie. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "magpie": magpie-like. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
magpie | 212 |
magpie bird | 32 |
black billed magpie | 14 |
magpie trap | 11 |
the thieving magpie | 8 |
magpie pro | 7 |
magpie picture | 7 |
bird magpie picture | 4 |
australian magpie | 4 |
billed magpie yellow | 4 |
black jay magpie throated | 3 |
goose magpie | 3 |
magpie system | 3 |
furniture magpie | 3 |
magpie nest | 3 |
magpie pica pica | 2 |
cartoon magpie | 2 |
jewelry magpie | 2 |
magpie photo | 2 |
duck magpie | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "magpie"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | llafazan (babbler, big mouth, blab, blabber, blatant, chatterbox, chatterer, chatty, diffusive, flibbertigibbet, gabber, garrulous, gasbag, gossip, gossipmonger, gossipy, long-tongued, loose-tongued, mouther, popinjay, prattler, rattle-box, rattler, rattletrap, sieve, spieler, storyteller, talebearer, talkative, tattler, tattletale, telltale, windbag), laraskë (pie), grizhlël. (various references) | |
Arabic | غراب العقعق, شخص كثير الثرثرة. (various references) | |
Blackfoot | mamiá'tsíkimi. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | сврака (pie), крадец на дребно (lurcher, pilferer, scrounger, sneak, sneak thief), бърборко (babbler, bladder, blatherskite, bletherskate, chatterer, gabber, gossip, prattler, tattler). (various references) | |
Chinese | 鵲 . (various references) | |
Czech | straka (pie), žvanilka. (various references) | |
Danish | skade (damage), husskade (black-billed magpie). (various references) | |
Dutch | ekster (black-billed magpie). (various references) | |
Esperanto | pigo. (various references) | |
Finnish | harakka. (various references) | |
French | pie (Main Economic Indicators). (various references) | |
Frisian | akster, akke. (various references) | |
German | Elster (madge). (various references) | |
Greek | καρακάξα (jackdaw, jay, pie). (various references) | |
Hebrew | עורב " חלים (woodpecker). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szarka (nicker, pie), szószátyár ember (chatterbox, man of many words). (various references) | |
Italian | gazza (madge). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 尾長 (azure-winged magpie). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | おなが (azure-winged magpie). (various references) | |
Manx | pieanat, madje, kiarkyl meanagh. (various references) | |
Maya | cheel (rainbow). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | agpiemay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | variedade de pombo, pessoa tagarela, pega rabuda (black-billed magpie), pega (hold). (various references) | |
Romanian | gaiţã (gossip, jabberer, jay, rattler, telltale), flecar (babbler, blab, cackler, chatterbox, chatty, driveller, flibbertigibbet, flippant, garrulous, rattler, sieve, talkative, talker, talky, telltale, windbag), coţofanã (pie). (various references) | |
Russian | сорока (pie). (various references) | |
Scottish | pioghaid. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | svraka. (various references) | |
Spanish | urraca (pie). (various references) | |
Swedish | skata (pie). (various references) | |
Turkish | saksağan (pie). (various references) | |
Turkmen | alahekik. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | сорока звичайна, барахольник, базіка (babbler, bagpipe, bletherskate, blower, chatterbox, parakeet, prattler, ranter, tattler, tattletale, windjammer, windy). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người hay ba hoa (blatherskite, bletherskate, bletherskite, gabber). (various references) | |
Welsh | pioden, pi. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | pica. (various references) |
| Medieval Latin | 700-1500 | pica. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | agace. (various references) |
| Middle English | 1100-1500 | pie. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "magpie": magpies. (additional references) | |
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"Magpie" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Macphie, Macpuke, maggie, Magie, maglite, Magnie, magoi, magpy, magrie, mampy, Manpie, Mapai, Mapie, Mappy, meglio, m'goi, mopie, msgsize, mugie, Nagpur, Ngapoi, omagiu. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "magpie" (pronounced 'Mag"pie'): Charpie, Crappie, Nanpie, Opie, Potpie. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-m-p" | |
-1 letter: image. | |
-2 letters: amie, game, gamp, gape, gimp, mage, magi, page, peag, pima. | |
-3 letters: age, aim, ami, amp, ape, gae, gam, gap, gem, gie, gip, imp, mae, mag, map, meg, mig, pam, pea, peg, pia, pie, pig. | |
-4 letters: ae, ag, ai, am, em, ma, me, mi, pa, pe, pi. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-m-p" | |
+1 letter: epigram, magpies, medigap, mispage, primage. | |
+2 letters: empaling, epigrams, medigaps, mispaged, mispages, primages, umpirage. | |
+3 letters: apogamies, dampening, decamping, emplacing, emplaning, encamping, epiphragm, exampling, graphemic, hampering, multipage, pampering, pegmatite, prearming, remapping, revamping, tampering, umpirages. | |
+4 letters: angiosperm, attempting, campaigned, campaigner, empaneling, epiphragms, graphemics, hemiplegia, impaneling, impeaching, impearling, impleading, impregnant, impregnate, impugnable, megaphonic, megascopic, megasporic, microphage, mimeograph, mispackage, omophagies, pacemaking, pegmatites, pegmatitic, permeating, permillage, phlegmatic, pigmentary, pilgrimage, polygamies, polygamize, prewarming, resampling, restamping, scampering, stampeding. | |
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