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单词 haggister
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haggistern.

Brit. /ˈhaɡᵻstə/, U.S. /ˈhæɡəstər/
Forms:

α. early Middle English aguster (in a lost MS).

β. 1500s– haggister, 1600s– hagester, 1700s– hagister.

γ. 1800s– eggiste.

Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.
Etymology: Cognate with Middle Dutch aexter , egestre (Dutch ekster ), Old Saxon agastria , agistra (Middle Low German egester , hegester , German regional (Low German) Häster , Heister ), Old High German agistra , agestra (probably reflecting *agastra ) magpie, probably < a suffixed form of the Germanic base of Old English agu , Old High German aga magpie, perhaps (with reference to its erect tail) ultimately < the same Indo-European base as edge n. Compare also, with an extended form of the suffix, Old High German agalstra (Middle High German agelster , egelster , German Elster ). Compare later haggess n.The initial h- shown by the β. forms and by haggess n. is probably folk-etymological in origin, but there is no obvious model; perhaps compare hag v.1, or perhaps hag n.1 The initial h- shown by some forms in Low German is probably due to association with Häher jay. Earlier currency of the β. forms may perhaps be implied by the field names Hagaste-croft , Hagaste-Howse (1548; Ecclesfield, West Riding of Yorkshire); compare note at haggess n.
English regional. Now rare.
The magpie, Pica pica.
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a1225 (?OE) Latin-Old Eng. Gloss. (Vitell. C.ix) (transcript of lost MS) in N. R. Ker Catal. MSS containing Anglo-Saxon (1957) 471 Pica, pyge the is on englisc Aguster.
1584 R. Scot Discouerie Witchcraft iv. viii. 82 The eating of a haggister or pie helpeth one bewitched in that member.
1674 J. Ray S. & E. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 68 Hagester, a Magpie. Kent.
1736 J. Lewis Hist. Isle Tenet (ed. 2) i. 38 The hagister..was in the poddergrotten.
1882 Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 42 All England over, whether it is known as pynot, haggister, or magot-pie, its appearance is accepted as an augury, and generally of ill omen.
1899 Notes & Queries Somerset & Dorset 6 125 This came out incidentally in his [sc. a keeper's] answer to an enquiry about the Dorset use of ‘Eggiste’ = Magpie. He does not know this as a Dorset name for the bird, but has heard it in Lincolnshire.
1995 J. M. Sims-Kimbrey Wodds & Doggerybaw: Lincs. Dial. Dict. 133/2 Hagister, the magpie.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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