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magpie

/ˈmaɡpʌɪ/

noun
- 1. a long-tailed crow with boldly marked (or green) plumage and a noisy call.
- 2. any bird of the Australasian butcher-bird family, having black-and-white plumage and musical calls.
- 3. used figuratively to refer to a person who obsessively collects things or who chatters idly: "his father was a garrulous old man who chattered like a magpie"
- 4. the division of a circular target next to the outer one, or a shot which strikes this.
Word Origin late 16th century: probably shortening of dialect maggot the pie, maggoty-pie, from Magot (Middle English pet form of the given name Marguerite) + pie2.
Scrabble Points: 11
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