| 释义 |
ˈmaggot-pie Obs. exc. dial.
Forms: 6 magget the py, 6–7 mag(g)ot-a-pie, 7 magot o' pie, magata-, meggata-, maggotte-, maggoti-pie, pye, maggot-pie, -pye, 9 dial. maggotty-pie.
[f. maggot2 (as quasi-proper name) + pie; the middle syllable of some forms represents the; cf. F. Margot la pie.]
A magpie.
1573Tusser Husb. (1878) 108 If gentils be scrauling, call magget the py. 1598Florio, Garzetta, a magot a pie, or piot... Gazzotto, a maggot-a-pie. 1604Breton Grimellos Fortunes D 4 b, His wife..had in her house a young Pie; (which we call a Magot-a-Pie). 1605Shakes. Macb. iii. iv. 125 Maggot Pyes, & Choughes, & Rookes. 1605Camden Rem. (1637) 166 So an Hare on a bottle for Harebottle; a Maggot-pie upon a Goate for Pigot [etc.]. 1611Cotgr., Agasse, a Pie, Piannet, or Magatapie. Ibid., Pie, a Pye, Pyannat, Meggata-pye. 1632Chapman & Shirley Ball i. i, At the Maggot-a-pie in the Strand, Sir. 1681Hickeringill Black Non-Conf. Introd., Wks. 1716 II. 2 Did you never see a Crow or a Maggottepye sit pecking, and cawing..upon an Asses back? 1893Wilts. Gloss., Maggotty-pie..still in use. |