magpie
(mægpaɪ )
Word forms: magpies
1. countable noun
A magpie is a large black and white bird with a long tail.
2. countable noun
If you describe someone as a magpie, you mean that they like collecting and keeping things, often things that have little value. [informal]
A born magpie, Mandy collects any object that catches her eye.
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Translations:
Chinese: 喜鹊
Japanese: カササギ
- sedentary lifestyle
- sedge
- sediment
- sedimentary
- sedimentary deposit
- sedimentary layer
- sedimentary rock
- sediment core
- sediment deposit
- sedition
- seditious
- seditious libel
- seduce
- seducer
- seduction
- seductive
- seductively
- seductress
- see
- see about
- see above
- see a clip
- see a commercial
- see a contradiction
- see a counsellor