magpie
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
magpie/ˈmaɡpʌɪ/
▶noun
- 1 a long-tailed bird of the crow family, typically with black-and-white plumage and a noisy call. [Pica pica and other species.]
■ a black-and-white Australian butcher-bird with a musical call.
[Gymnorhina tibicen.]
- 2 a person who obsessively collects things.
- 3 the division of a circular target next to the outer one, or a shot which strikes this.
– origin C16: prob. shortening of dial. maggot the pie, maggoty-pie, from Magot (ME familiar form of the given name Marguerite) + pie2.
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