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/ˈmæɡˌpaɪ/ · noun
One of several kinds of bird in the family Corvidae, especially Pica pica..
Not only is Mr. Booker a voracious magpie (who does not always acknowledge the sources of his ideas), but he also turns out to be an annoyingly biased and didactic one.
Kitty and I were engaged. The next day I met those accursed “magpie” Jhampanies at the back of Jakko, and, moved by some passing sentiment of pity, stopped to tell Mrs. Wessington everything.
The worst part of my experience in this magpie livery was yet to come, for I was to appear in it the next day at church.
The little rail-enclosed plots that lay between the pavements and the hotels were magpied with torn paper […]
[…] she stood at the window and saw the lake blue with spring and a few patches of snow that magpied the hills.
[…] they looked down upon Highmost Redmanhey, timber and plaster magpied by the moon, and a lamp in the window of the room where Susan lay.
[…] young Inspector Cruse arrived at the Dun Cow, entering through a door tricked out as Tudor and set into a façade magpied with white paint and nailed-on beams […]
[…] she liked to be able to have a picturesque fact or two with which to support herself when she too, to hold attention, wanted to issue moving statements as to revolutions, anarchies and strife in the offing. And she had noticed that when she magpied Tietjens’ conversations more serious men in responsible positions were apt to argue with her and to pay her more attention than before....
Use magpie when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Magpie means One of several kinds of bird in the family Corvidae, especially Pica pica..
Common synonyms include haggister, maggie, Eurasian magpie, European magpie.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Not only is Mr. Booker a voracious magpie (who does not always acknowledge the sources of his ideas), but he also turns out to be an annoyingly biased and didactic one.
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