Definitions for magpie

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Spelling: [mag-pahy]

IPA: /ˈmægˌpaɪ/

Magpie is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 100 anagrams from letters in magpie (aegimp).

Definitions for magpie

noun

1. either of two corvine birds, Pica pica (black-billed magpie) of Eurasia and North America, or P. nuttalli (yellow-billed magpie) of California, having long, graduated tails, black-and-white plumage, and noisy, mischievous habits.
2. any of several related corvine birds.
3. any of several black-and-white birds not related to the true magpies, as Gymnorhina tibicen, of Australia.
4. an incessantly talkative person; noisy chatterer; chatterbox.
5. a person who collects or hoards things, especially indiscriminately.
6. Western U.S. a black-and-white cow or steer, as a Holstein.

Origin of magpie

1595-1605; Mag Margaret + pie²

Examples for magpie

But p. 327ever since then I know it is unlucky to see a magpie.

Now the magpie was lazy, and she sat still and watched the others at their work.

Television is a magpie, and it will take back to its stuffed nest whatever shiny things it can find.

But, just as she was going to leave the ‘fould,’ a magpie flew before her.

But the magpie was lazy, and she thought, "If I do not learn, they will build a nest for me."

Before long all the birds but the magpie had their nests built.

Out upon you, magpie; would you delude the old man with fables?

Of course you can answer no questions when I keep chattering like a magpie.

He might as well have provided them for a squirrel or a magpie.

Instead, he was more of a magpie, listening to what came before and incorporating it into his own inimitable music.