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单词 maggoty-pie
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maggoty-pien.

Brit. /ˈmaɡətɪˌpʌɪ/, U.S. /ˈmæɡədiˈˌpaɪ/
Forms: 1500s magget the py, 1500s–1600s maggot-a-pie, 1500s–1600s magot-a-pie, 1600s magatapie, 1600s magata-pye, 1600s maggoti-pie, 1600s magget a pie, 1600s maggoti-pye, 1600s maggot-pie, 1600s maggot pye, 1600s maggotte-pie, 1600s maggottepye, 1600s magottepye, 1600s meggata-pie, 1600s meggata-pye, 1800s maggota-pee (Irish English), 1800s– maggotty-pie (English regional), 1800s– maggoty-pie (English regional and Irish English).
Origin: From a proper name, combined with English elements. Etymons: proper name Magot , the adj., pie n.1
Etymology: < Magot, Maggot, obsolete pet form of the female forenames Margery (see margery n.1) and Margaret (see Margaret n.: compare the slightly later maggot n.2) + the adj. + pie n.1; compare French Margot la pie (1694), margot-pie . The medial the was subsequently worn down to an indeterminate syllable, and sometimes lost altogether. Compare magpie n., maw-pie n.
Now British regional.
A magpie.
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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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