magpie

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One of several kinds of bird in the family Corvidae, especially Pica pica.
  2. A superficially similar Australian bird, Gymnorhina tibicen, in the family Artamidae.
  3. Someone who displays a magpie-like quality such as hoarding or stealing objects. figuratively
    — 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.
  4. A fan or member of Newcastle United F.C. slang
  5. In the sport of fullbore target rifle, the third circle on a target, between the inner and outer. UK
  6. A halfpenny. UK,obsolete,slang
  7. A pattern resembling the pied plumage of a magpie. attributive
    — 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.
动词 v.
  1. To mark with patches of black and white or light and dark. transitive
    — The little rail-enclosed plots that lay between the pavements and the hotels were magpied with torn paper […]
  2. To steal or hoard (items) as magpies are believed to do. ambitransitive
    — […] 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....
  3. To talk idly; to talk about other people's private business. intransitive
    — He knew how people were magpieing with their malicious chatter that she had committed the cardinal sin of believing love was permanent […]

词形变化

magpies plural magpies present,singular,third-person magpieing participle,present magpied participle,past magpied past

词汇关系

衍生词
Australian magpie Cracticus tibicen Gymnorhina tibicen azure-winged magpie bell-magpie black-billed magpie black magpie blue magpie Eurasian magpie green magpie holarctic magpie Iberian magpie Korean magpie Magpie Festival magpie goose magpie inkcap magpieish magpie-jay magpie-lark magpielike magpie moth magpie-robin magpie shrike magpie tanager Murray magpie oriental magpie sea-magpie yellow-billed magpie

词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
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.
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