MAGPIE

magpie

(noun) long-tailed black-and-white crow that utters a raucous chattering call

chatterer, babbler, prater, chatterbox, magpie, spouter

(noun) an obnoxious and foolish and loquacious talker

magpie, scavenger, pack rat

(noun) someone who collects things that have been discarded by others

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Noun

Magpie (plural Magpies)

(soccer) someone connected with Newcastle United Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.

(soccer) someone connected with Notts County Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.

(Australian rules football) someone connected with Collingwood Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.

(rugby league) someone connected, or formerly connected with the Western Suburbs Magpies, as a fan, player, coach etc.

Etymology

Noun

magpie (plural magpies)

One of several kinds of bird in the family Corvidae

especially Pica pica.

A superficially similar Australian bird, Gymnorhina tibicen or Cracticus tibicen.

Someone who displays a magpie-like quality such as hoarding or stealing objects.

(slang) A fan or member of Newcastle United F.C.

(military, firearms) The 3rd circle on a target, between the inner and outer.

(UK, slang, obsolete) A halfpenny.

Synonyms

• (Pica pica): Eurasian magpie, European magpie, common magpie

• maggie

• pica

• pie

• piet

Verb

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

(ambitransitive) To steal or hoard (items) as magpies are believed to do.

(intransitive) To talk idly; to talk about other people's private business.

Synonyms: chatter, gossip

Source: Wiktionary

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Mag"pie, n. Etym: [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. Pie magpie, and cf. the analogous names Tomtit, and Jackdaw.] (Zoöl.)

Definition: Any one of numerous species of the genus Pica and related genera, allied to the jays, but having a long graduated tail.

Note: The common European magpie (Pica pica, or P. caudata) is a black and white noisy and mischievous bird. It can be taught to speak. The American magpie (P. Hudsonica) is very similar. The yellow-belled magpie (P. Nuttalli) inhabits California. 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). Magpie lark (Zoöl.), a common Australian bird (Grallina picata), conspicuously marked with black and white; -- called also little magpie.

– Magpie moth (Zoöl.), a black and white European geometrid moth (Abraxas grossulariata); the harlequin moth. Its larva feeds on currant and gooseberry bushes.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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