| 释义 |
maggie|ˈmægɪ|
[f. Mag n.2 + -ie.]
1. Sc. A girl.
1603Philotus cxxxvi, Ȝe trowit to get ane burd of blisse, To haue ane of thir Maggies. 1819G. Beattie Ketty Pert Poems (1826) 83 Troth, little profit has she made By fisher maggies.
2. a. Sc. Local name for the Common Guillemot (Alca troile).
1885in Swainson Provinc. Names Birds.
b. dial. and Austral. A magpie.
1825J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words 131 Maggy, a magpie. 1878Zoologist Sept. 332/1 Magpie. Piet; Maggie. 1934Bulletin (Sydney) 19 Sept. 21/2 Out maggie went backwards through the door, arguing every inch of the ground. 1965Jrnl. Lancs. Dial. Soc. Jan. 7 Maggie: Tunstall, Burton, Hornby, Bentham, [etc.].
3. Rifle-shooting. = magpie 7, Mag n.2 3.
1901Daily Chron. 22 July 7/2 The Englishman fired again, and once more it was only a ‘maggie’.
4. In full, Maggie Ann (also Maggy Anne). Margarine. colloq.
1933Partridge Slang To-day & Yesterday 385 Maggie Ann. Margarine: C20. 1959I. & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolch. ix. 163 Margarine or ‘marg’ is ‘Maggy Anne’. 1971D. Lees Rainbow Conspiracy vi. 91 Sam never paid him enough to put maggy on his bread. |