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US
/ˈmæɡˌpaɪ/
]
[ UK /mˈæɡpaɪ/ ]
[ UK /mˈæɡpaɪ/ ]
NOUN
- someone who collects things that have been discarded by others
- an obnoxious and foolish and loquacious talker
- long-tailed black-and-white crow that utters a raucous chattering call
How To Use magpie In A Sentence
- My favourite it the Magpie- my friend made a film about them a couple of years ago and i'm in it saying 'they're like English parrots don't you think?' and then going on to show how I think they have really great bums that you just want to squoosh your face in. It's a Giveaway!!!!
- Like jays and crows, their cousins, magpies are mischievous and bold.
- Magpies are also building their domed nests of long twigs in the trees, but have been finding it hard in the strong winds. Times, Sunday Times
- Three oldish men from among the high-somebodies stood nearest him, watching him as a magpie watches a cat. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
- It knew none of the games that the magpie invented save one, and that was a kind of aerial “peep-bo” to which the brainier bird lured it by means of a prize. My Tropic Isle
- Magpies are also building their domed nests of long twigs in the trees, but have been finding it hard in the strong winds. Times, Sunday Times
- It blasts away for openers - not for the first time - with the overture from Rossini's otherwise neglected opera The Thieving Magpie.
- An evening at the Magpie and Crown in Brentford was certainly lively, intellectually stimulating and at times hysterically funny; and I think their cask-conditioned scrumpy is probably at least twice the advertised strength... A busy weekend...
- But this hatred mainly comes from the magpie's reputation as an omen of ill fortune. The Sun
- Intense management efforts have helped build up the populations of the Seychelles magpie robin on Frégate Island, and to translocate it to other islands. Granitic Seychelles forests
