α. early Middle English aguster (in a lost MS).
β. 1500s– haggister, 1600s– hagester, 1700s– hagister.
γ. 1800s– eggiste.
单词 | haggister |
释义 | haggistern.α. early Middle English aguster (in a lost MS). β. 1500s– haggister, 1600s– hagester, 1700s– hagister. γ. 1800s– eggiste. English regional. Now rare. The magpie, Pica pica. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > larger song birds > family Corvidae (crow) > [noun] > pica pica (magpie) haggistera1225 piea1225 piet?a1513 maggoty-pie1573 magpie1589 pianet1594 haggess1599 maw-pie1618 pie-maggot1628 mag1802 madge1823 maggie1825 maggot1848 Margaret1854 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). < n.a1225 |
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