单词 | maggoty-pie |
释义 | maggoty-pien. Now British regional. A magpie. 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 1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 45v If gentils be skrauling, call magget the pye. 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes A magot a pie, or piot... Gazzotto, a maggot-a-pie. 1604 N. Breton Grimellos Fortunes D 4 b His wife..had in her house a young Pie; (which we call a Magot-a-Pie). 1605 W. Camden Remaines i. 148 So an Hare on a bottle for Harebottle; a Maggot-pie vppon a goate for Pigot [etc.]. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Agasse, a Pie, Piannet, or Magatapie. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Pie, a Pye, Pyannat, Meggata-pye. a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iii. iv. 124 Maggot Pyes, & Choughes, & Rookes. View more context for this quotation 1639 J. Shirley Ball i. sig. A4v At the Magget a Pie in the Strand sir. 1682 E. Hickeringill Black Non-Conformist Introd. sig. B Did you never see a Crow or Magottepye sit pecking, and cawing..upon an Asses back, or a Swines back? 1893 G. E. Dartnell & E. H. Goddard Gloss. Words Wilts. Maggotty-pie..still in use. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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