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Mag, n.2|mæg|
Cf. Meg.
[Playful shortening of the female name Margaret.]
1. Used as a personal name in various proverbial phrases. † Mag('s tales: nonsense, trifling. Mag's diversion (also Meg's: see Meg).
c1410Love Bonavent. Mirr. xxxix. 85 (Sherard MS.) [The Lollard] scorneth..suche miracles haldynge hem but as magges tales [B.N.C. MS. magge tales, W. de W. (eds. 1517–30) madde tales] and feyned illusiouns. 1834M. M. G. Dowling Othello Travestie i. iii, The galley slaves Are playing mag's diversion on the waves. [1837Southey Doctor IV. cxxv. 250 Who was Magg? and what was his diversion?] 1849Dickens in Forster Life (1872) II. xx. 432 Mag's Diversions. Being the personal history of Mr. Thomas Mag the Younger, Of Blunderstone House.
2. Used as a proper name for a magpie. Also as a common noun = magpie.
1802G. Montagu Ornith. Dict. (1833) 311. 18.. Clare Life & Rem. (1873) 245 While mag's on her nest with her tail peeping out. 1885Swainson Prov. Names Birds, Magpie (Pica rustica)... Familiar names. Mag, or Madge.
3. Rifle-shooting. = magpie.
1895Pall Mall G. 29 July 11/2 If Winans made a ‘mag’ with his first shot he would probably cease firing.
4. long-tailed mag (dial.): the Long-tailed Titmouse, Acredula rosea.
1851Morris Hist. Brit. Birds I. 275. |