magpie

Εννοια (Αγγλικός)

Verb

1. (transitive) To mark with patches of black and white or light and dark.
2. (ambitransitive) To steal or hoard (items) as magpies are believed to do.
3. (intransitive) To talk idly; to talk about other people's private business.

Noun

1. One of several kinds of bird in the family Corvidae, especially Pica pica.
2. A superficially similar Australian bird, Gymnorhina tibicen, in the family Artamidae.
3. (figuratively) Someone who displays a magpie-like quality such as hoarding or stealing objects.
4. (slang) A fan or member of Newcastle United F.C.
5. The third circle on a target, between the inner and outer.
6. (UK, obsolete, slang) A halfpenny.
7. (attributive) A pattern resembling the pied plumage of a magpie.

Έννοιες

καρακάξα

κίσσα

πίτα

πίτσα

γαλιάντρα

πολυλογάς

karakáxa

Συνώνυμα

pie

🥧

chatterbox

jay

jackdaw

pack rat

babbler

chatterer

prater

scavenger

spouter

black-billed magpie

common magpie

magpie moth

aggregator

currant moth

European magpie

gatherer

collector

blue jay

bird

🐦

Μεταφράσεις

gazza

Elster

pie

ekster

urraca

pega

garsa

saksağan

pica

picaza

Pica pica

agaça

عقعق

gralha

Προφέρεται ως (IPA)

/ˈmæɡˌpaɪ/

Ετυμολογία (Αγγλικός)

From Mag, a nickname for Margaret that was used to denote a chatterer, + archaic pie (“magpie”), from Old French pie, from Latin pīca, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peyk- (“woodpecker, magpie”). Displaced native Old English agu, "magpie".