Definitions
A long-tailed black-and-white bird known for chattering calls.
Word origin
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.
Used in a sentence
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Noisy corvid”6 letters
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