magpies

We have found lemma(root) word of magpies : magpie.

Definitions


[ˈmaɡpʌɪ], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a long-tailed crow with boldly marked (or green) plumage and a noisy call

- any bird of the Australasian butcherbird family, having black-and-white plumage and musical calls

- used figuratively to refer to a person who obsessively collects things or who chatters idly
(e.g: his father was a garrulous old man who chattered like a magpie)

- the division of a circular target next to the outer one, or a shot which strikes this


Phrases:

Origin:
late 16th century: probably shortening of dialect maggot the pie, maggoty-pie, from Magot(Middle English pet form of the given name Marguerite) + pie




definition by Oxford Dictionaries