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magpie
- IPA[ˈmaɡpʌɪ]
英式
- a long-tailed crow with boldly marked (or green) plumage and a noisy call.;any bird of the Australasian butcher-bird family, having black-and-white plumage and musical calls.
noun: magpie, plural noun: magpies
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名詞
- 1. a long-tailed crow with boldly marked (or green) plumage and a noisy call.
- 2. any bird of the Australasian butcher-bird family, having black-and-white plumage and musical calls.
- 3. used figuratively to refer to a person who obsessively collects things or who chatters idly his father was a garrulous old man who chattered like a magpie he would carry these documents home to appease his secretive magpie instinct
- 4. the division of a circular target next to the outer one, or a shot which strikes this.
- see currawong and magpie
Oxford Dictionary
- a common ground-dwelling Australian songbird with black-and-white plumage, long legs, and a ...
Oxford Dictionary
- a white moth with black and yellow spots, the caterpillars of which are similarly coloured and ...
Oxford Dictionary
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- IPA[ˈmaɡˌpī]
美式
- a long-tailed crow with boldly marked (or green) plumage and a raucous voice.
Oxford American Dictionary