单词 | magpie |
释义 | magpien.adj. A. n. 1. a. A common bird of the northern hemisphere, Pica pica, of the crow family ( Corvidae), having a long pointed tail, black and white plumage, and a noisy chattering call, proverbial for its habit of taking and hoarding bright objects and regarded by some as a bird of ill omen. Also (with distinguishing word): any of several other long-tailed birds of the crow family, esp. of the genera Pica, Cyanopica, Cissa, and Urocissa.black, green magpie, etc.: see the first element. 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 1589 Mar-Martine sig. A2 There: magpy teacheth them to chat, And cookow soone doth hit them pat. 1598 J. Mosan tr. C. Wirsung Praxis Med. Vniuersalis sig. Hhh1v Magpie, Pica, and Citta. 1605 S. Rowley When you see Me sig. C3 As merie as a magge pie. 1634 H. Peacham Gentlemans Exercise (new ed.) ii. i. 108 Dissimulation. A Lady wearing a vizard of two faces,..in her right hand a magpye. 1647 R. Stapleton tr. Juvenal Sixteen Satyrs 62 The nine daughters of Pierus..were for that saucy ambition transformed into meg-pyes. 1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity 333 The Loquacity of the Magpie. 1720 J. Gay Poems (1745) I. 70 No magpie chatter'd, nor the painted Jay. 1751 Universal Mag. in W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1827) 2 1457 No horseshoe nor magpye shall baffle our skill. 1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 159 And magpies that chattered, no omen so black. 1855 Ld. Tennyson To Rev. F. D. Maurice 19 And only hear the Magpie gossip Garrulous under a roof of pine. 1859 C. Darwin Origin of Species vii. 212 The magpie, so wary in England, is tame in Norway. 1916 Sat. Westm. Gaz. 19 Aug. 5/2 The great and flashing magpie He flies as artists might. 1930 Discovery Dec. 415/2 The lovely green magpie is peculiar in the colouring pigment of the plumage which changes from a vivid green to a dull greenish-blue after death. 1956 R. Peterson et al. Field Guide Birds Brit. & Europe (ed. 2) 203 Azure-winged magpie, Cyanopica cyanus. 1959 J. Van Tyne & A. J. Berger Fund. Ornithol. ix. 255 In the western United States, Magpies (Pica pica) have often been seen picking insects from the heads and backs of deer. 1964 A. L. Thomson New Dict. Birds 166/2 The Yellow-billed Magpie P[ica] nuttalli of California. 1985 C. M. Perrins & A. L. A. Middleton Encycl. Birds 443/3 The magpies include not only the familiar piebald magpie of Europe, Asia and North America, but also a number of more brightly colored species from southern Asia such as the Green magpie and Red-billed blue magpie. 1991 Times 2 Nov. (Weekend section) 6/3 Jackdaws, magpies and carrion crows eat almost anything. b. Australian. More fully Australian magpie. Any of several black and white birds of the butcher-bird family ( Cracticidae), esp. Gymnorhina tibicen.bush magpie: see bush n.1 ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > larger song birds > [noun] > family Cracticidae > gymnorhina tibicen magpie1792 piping crow1832 organ bird1847 flute-bird1862 bush-magpie1890 maggie1901 the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > larger song birds > [noun] > family Cracticidae > genus Strepera (currawong) magpie1792 rainbird1817 trumpeter1827 currawong1926 1792 R. Atkins Jrnl. 13 Nov. We..made some excellent Soup of 1 Duck 1 Pidgeon 1 Crow & 3 Magpies. 1831 Acct. Colony Van Dieman's Land 88 At intervals the magpie, though unseen, filled the valley with its loud but sweet song. 1859 H. Kingsley Recoll. G. Hamlyn II. xviii. 4 A magpie was chanting his noble vesper hymn from a lofty tree. 1886 T. Heney Fortunate Days 47 The magpie swells from knoll or silent brake His loud sweet tune. 1922 Bulletin (Sydney) 20 Apr. 22/2 I have also seen a magpie (crow-shrike) carry a freshly caught mouse to the top of a pine-tree. 1931 M. M. Banks Memories Pioneer Days Queensland 74 The magpie, a shrike thrush by classification, is, like the butcher bird, also pied black and white. 1962 B. W. Leake Eastern Wheatbelt Wildlife 86 The magpie and currawong or squeaker are closely related to the crow and are really crow shrikes. 1965 Austral. Encycl. V. 460/2 Magpies are among the most familiar of Australian birds because of their abundance. 1983 J. Hepworth More Birds & Beasties Austral. in Austral. National Dict. (at cited word) Magpie's voice is one in a million. No poofy trill or silvery squeak, But a fullblooded bush carillon. c. mountain magpie: see mountain n. and adj. Compounds 2c. 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > [noun] > talkative person chaterestrea1250 jangler1303 babbler1366 blabbererc1375 jangleressc1386 talkerc1386 clatterer1388 cacklera1400 languager1436 carperc1440 mamblerc1450 praterc1500 jackdaw?1520 chewet1546 flibbertigibbet1549 clatterfart1552 patterer1552 piec1557 long tongue?1562 prattler1567 piet1574 twattler1577 brawler1581 nimble-chops1581 pratepie1582 roita1585 whittera1585 full-mouth1589 interprater1591 chatterer1592 pianet1594 bablatrice1595 parakeet1598 Bow-bell cockney1600 prattle-basket1602 bagpipe1603 worder1606 babliaminy1608 chougha1616 gabbler1624 blatterer1627 magpie1632 prate-apace1636 rattlea1637 clack1640 blateroon1647 overtalker1654 prate-roast1671 prattle-box1671 babelard1678 twattle-basket1688 mouth1699 tongue-pad1699 chatterista1704 rattler1709 morologist1727 chatterbox1774 palaverer1788 gabber1792 whitter-whatter1805 slangwhanger1807 nash-gab1816 pump1823 windbag1827 big mouth1834 gasbag1841 chattermag1844 tattle-monger1848 rattletrap1850 gasser1855 mouth almighty1864 clucker1869 talky-talky1869 gabster1870 loudmouth1870 tonguester1871 palaverista1873 mag1876 jawsmith1887 spieler1894 twitterer1895 yabbler1901 wordster1904 poofter1916 blatherer1920 ear-bender1922 burbler1923 woofer1934 ear-basher1944 motormouth1955 yacker1960 yammerer1978 jay- 1632 P. Massinger & N. Field Fatall Dowry iv. sig. H2 I haue waited, sir, Three houres to speake w'ee, and not take it well, Such magpies, are admitted, whilst I daunce Attendance. 1791 E. Burke Let. to Chev. de Rivarol (1844) III. 211 He will not care what..the whole flight of the magpies and jays of philosophy, may fancy and chatter. 1838 Lett. fr. Madras (1843) 189 The Moonshee..is not the little talkative magpie who told me about the language of the planets. 1895 W. C. Scully Kafir Stories 132 He was so fond of talking that his comrades nicknamed him ‘magpie’. b. A person who collects or hoards objects, information, etc., esp. indiscriminately; an acquisitive or eclectic person; (also) a petty pilferer. Cf. sense B. 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > acquisition > [noun] > one who obtains or acquires > one who acquires possessions purchaserc1384 magpie1903 the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > petty thief or pilferer > [noun] mitcher?c1225 nimmera1325 pilferer1350 truffer1485 lurcher1528 picker1549 filcher1557 purloiner1557 prig1567 prigger1567 prigman1567 fingerer1575 piker1590 prag1592 nibbler1598 lurch-man1603 petty larcener1640 budge1673 catch-cloaka1679 prigster1682 sutler1699 marauder1764 snib1823 chicken thief1840 lurker1841 souvenir hunter1862 robberling1865 jackdaw1887 miker1890 frisker1892 bower-bird1926 jagoff1931 magpie1944 slockster- 1903 Eng. Dial. Dict. IV. 8/2 Magpie,..in Birmingham the word is used of collectors. ‘What a magpie he is’, he is enthusiastic in adding to his collection. 1944 J. H. Fullarton Troop Target iv. 34 You bloody magpie, what have you done with my tobacco? 1956 A. Wilson Anglo-Saxon Attitudes ii. i. 236 That must be a mot she's picked up second-hand, Gerald thought, she's a cultural magpie. 1963 Daily Tel. 24 Dec. 6/2 Some cherished beliefs about trading stamp collectors take a rude knock from a survey published in Sales Director. Apparently the keenest magpie is the London male. 1985 L. Blue Kitchen Blues 79 There is a magpie in all of us, and..there is enough tucked away in our cupboards to supply church bazaars, tombolas and countless bring-and-buys. 1990 Newsweek 16 July 61/2 Screenwriter Bruce Joel Rubin is a clever magpie: he's raided every genre to create this seductive, funny hybrid. 3. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > bishop > kinds of bishop > [noun] > Anglican superintendent?1544 superintendentship1565 magpiea1704 1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ To Rdr. sig. A3v Prelats, like Magpies in the Ayr had flown. 1664 T. Killigrew Parsons Wedding iii. v, in Comedies & Trag. 114 Have you not heard of the Scriveners Wife that..was deliver'd of a Mag-Pie;..the Mid-wife cri'd out, 'twas born a Bishop, with Tippet and white-sleeves.] a1704 T. Brown Quakers Grace in Wks. (1720) I. 130 Root out of them all Anti-Christian Tyranny of most abominable Bishops; let not those Silk-worms and Magpies have Dominion over us. 1866 Caught Napping ii. 21 ‘We have caught him in the act of drawing a magpie on the wall of Caesar's palace—a bird of ill omen.’.. ‘It is an Anglican prelate,’ said I. 1923 L. H. Dawson Brewer's Dict. Phrase & Fable (new ed.) 700/2 Formerly bishops were humorously or derisively called magpies because of their black and white vestments. b. humorous. In recent use: the episcopal costume consisting of these vestments. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > vestments > [noun] > according to canon law canonical dress1666 canonicals1748 magpie1904 society > faith > artefacts > vestments > clothing of particular functionaries > [noun] > bishop > black and white magpie1904 1904 N.E.D. (at cited word) Did he wear a cope, or only his magpie? 1917 G. W. E. Russell Politics & Personalities iv. ix. 357 The most hideous of all known costumes—the episcopal ‘Magpie’—costs £100. 1917 G. W. E. Russell Politics & Personalities iv. ix. 360 Carrying with his own apostolic hands the sacred appliances of Mitre or Magpie. 1920 P. Dearmer Ornam. of Ministers (new ed.) Pl. 29 (caption) The..figures of the two bishops well illustrate the ‘magpie’ dress. 1992 T. Briden & B. Hanson Moore's Introd. Eng. Canon Law (ed. 3) 102 The familiar ‘magpie’ of rochet and chimere (with black wristbands) is regarded as the choir-habit. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > root vegetables > potato > potato plant > varieties of magpie1797 rose1807 ash-leaf1845 magnum bonum1882 1797 J. Billingsley Gen. View Agric. Somerset (new ed.) 116 The sorts [of potatoes] cultivated are the kidney,..magpie, rough red [etc.]. 1829 J. L. Knapp Jrnl. Naturalist 31 Our chief sorts [of potato] are pink eyes,..magpies, and china oranges. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > English coins > [noun] > halfpenny halfpennyc1330 ob.1389 galley-halfpenny1409 obolusc1450 make?1536 mail1570 meg?1738 mag?1775 tumbling tom1826 magpie1838 1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist I. viii. 125 I'm at low-water-mark,—only one bob and a magpie. 6. A breed of fancy pigeon whose markings resemble those of a magpie. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Columbiformes (pigeons, etc.) > domestic pigeon > [noun] > other types porcelainc1530 turn-pate1611 light horseman1661 runt1661 smiter1668 helmet1676 mammet1678 Cortbeck1688 turbit1688 turner1688 dragoon1725 finicking1725 Leghorn1725 nun1725 owl1725 petit1725 trumpeter1725 horseman1735 Mahomet1735 barbel1736 turn-tail1736 frill-back1765 blue rock1825 beard1826 ice pigeon1829 toy1831 black1839 skinnum1839 splash1851 whole-feather1851 spangle1854 swallow1854 shield1855 stork pigeon1855 Swabian1855 yellow1855 archangel1867 dragon1867 starling1867 magpie1868 smerle1869 bluette1870 cumulet1876 oriental1876 spot fairy1876 turbiteen1876 blondinette1879 hyacinth1879 Modena pigeon1879 silver-dun1879 silverette1879 silver-mealy1879 swift pigeon1879 Victoria1879 visor1879 ice1881 swallow pigeon1881 velvet fairy1881 priesta1889 frill1890 1868 W. B. Tegetmeier Pigeons xxi. 174 Magpies are another variety of German Toys that are well known in England. 1895 Times 16 Jan. 11/6 For the rest, the Magpies, black, red, yellow, and blue..deserve to be mentioned. 1898 Daily News 5 Jan. 2 Mr. F. Warner has some excellent magpies. 1984 D. F. Ison Fancy Pigeon Standards (ed. 2) 102 The original Magpie was one of the Old Tumbler family, coming via Germany from Denmark about 1900. 7. Shooting slang (originally Military). A shot from a rifle which strikes the outermost division but one of a target, and is signalled by a black and white flag. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > competitive shooting > [noun] > types of shot bull's-eye1857 outer1859 carton1864 sighting-shot1872 magpie1884 inner1887 mag1895 maggie1901 1884 Times 23 July 8/1 After running through the scoring gamut with an outer, a magpie, and a miss. 1894 Times 14 July 10/1 He followed his first two bull's eyes with two more, then came a magpie. 1909 Bisley Guide (National Rifle Assoc.) 51 A ‘magpie’, scoring 3. 1980 D. Cragg Lex. Militaris 287 Magpie, a shot in the target on a rifle range that hits the inner circle of a target and is signaled by a black and white flag. 8. Usually in plural. Sport (esp. Association Football). (The familiar nickname of) any of a number of teams who regularly play in a black and white strip.In the United Kingdom, the name has been applied to numerous football teams, most prominently Newcastle United, Notts. County, and Torquay United. In Australia, the term is used most notably of the Melbourne Australian Rules football team, Collingwood F.C., and the Western Suburbs rugby league team of New South Wales. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > association football > [noun] > player > team > specific team magpie1921 Socceroos1973 1921 H. T. Johnson in Football Special 24 Sept. 10/1 The Magpies had ‘wiped the eye’ of their local rival, so far as the football world was concerned. 1946 T. Morgan Let's talk about N.U.F.C. 14 Irish international Bill McCracken, gave the best years of his career to the ‘Magpies’. 1963 L. Richards Boots & All! 12 I was born into a Magpie family and reared in the magpie nest, kicking tin cans and paper footballs around the streets of Collingwood and Abbotsford. 1976 Evening Post (Nottingham) 13 Dec. 15/4 The former Turf Moor player..established a Magpies transfer record when he made his £30,000 move in the summer of 1973. 1991 Daily Star 24 Dec. 39/3 Chris Waddle breezed back into training with Ossie Ardiles' Newcastle yesterday and..trained with his old club to give worried Magpies fans a real Christmas present. B. adj. (attributive). 1. Of black and white colouring; pied.In quot. 1648 with reference to the colouring of the episcopal costume (see sense A. 3a). ΚΠ 1648 Mercurius Britanicus Alive Again No. 1. 1 How did you shrink at tyranny, And with a joynt consent, Make all the Magpie Bishops flee Out of the Parliament. 1824 Hobart Town Gaz. 12 Nov. Impounded, at Iverdon, a magpie Cow, branded SR on the off hip. 1885 R. Kipling Phantom 'Rickshaw (1889) 9 My eye was arrested by the sight of four jhampanies in ‘magpie’ livery... Was it not enough that the woman was dead.., without her black and white servitors re-appearing? 1923 Daily Mail 28 Mar. 11 Magpie Millinery. Black and white millinery is popular at all seasons. 1932 Daily Tel. 25 Apr. 4/5 Black and white is to continue its long reign this summer. Charming examples of this smart, practical ‘magpie’ fashion will be found at most inexpensive prices. 1932 Daily Tel. 25 Apr. 4/5 (advt.) Ermine that imparts the fashionable magpie effect. 1942 H. J. Massingham Field Fellowship ii. 58 Moreton Old Hall in Cheshire is the conventional example of the magpie style. 1942 H. J. Massingham Field Fellowship ii. 58 We find the wood-workmanship of the Avon Valley carried to the utmost pitch of elaboration and complexity... This is the country of the ‘magpie’ timber-framing. 1971 J. S. Gunn Opal Terminol. 26 Magpie, black and white patch formed together. 2. Magpie-like: with allusion to the bird's traditional reputation for acquisitiveness, curiosity, etc.; indiscriminate, eclectic, varied. ΚΠ 1655 J. Phillips Satyr against Hypocrites 7 Their zeal doth never let them mind that matter, It is enough to hear the Magpy chatter. 1808 M. Wilmot Jrnl. 28 Aug. in M. Wilmot & C. Wilmot Russ. Jrnls. (1934) iii. 371 He deplores..the Magpye mingle of foreign expressions with the language of the Country. 1901 G. B. Shaw Caesar & Cleopatra ii. 114 He maintains an air of magpie keenness and profundity. 1936 P. Fleming News from Tartary iii. ii. 116 All our actions..were closely scrutinized..by the Chinese with ill-concealed amusement and a magpie curiosity. 1940 Proc. Prehistoric Soc. 6 120 Beaker people..showed a magpie acquisitiveness for other people's chattels. 1953 R. Lehmann Echoing Grove ii. 32 Where does she get this magpie streak from?.. But Mother hoarded, didn't she? 1962 G. K. Hunter John Lyly iv. 162 A variety of elements which would appeal to the magpie taste for classical motifs. 1974 ‘J. le Carré’ Tinker, Tailor xv. 125 That whole magpie collection of tattered hotel junk. Compounds C1. General attributive. magpie-minded adj. ΚΠ 1955 G. A. N. Lowndes Brit. Educ. Syst. iii. 49 Satisfying his curiosity..with unrelated snippets of knowledge which may lead to his becoming magpie-minded. C2. magpie diver n. (a) the smew, Mergus albellus; (b) the goldeneye, Bucephala clangula; (c) the tufted duck, Aythya fuligula. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [noun] > genus Mergus (merganser) > mergus albellus (smew) smeath1622 nun1666 merganser1668 smee1668 smew1674 weasela1682 Easterling1772 magpie diver1796 vare-widgeon1813 1796 P. A. Nemnich Allgemeines Polyglotten-Lex. v. 820 Magpie diver, the smew. 1831 J. Rennie Montagu's Ornithol. Dict. (ed. 2) 315 Magpie diver, a name for the Smew. 1882 R. Payne-Gallwey Fowler in Ireland 107 Another local name [of the Goldeneye] is the ‘Magpie Diver’, a very descriptive one by reason of the black and white plumage of the adult male. 1950 A. W. Boyd Coward's Birds Brit. Isles (rev. ed.) 2nd Ser. 60 The black and white ‘Magpie-Diver’, as some sportsmen call it [sc. the tufted duck],..is not a difficult bird to tell. magpie finch n. an African mannikin of the genus Lonchura, esp. the bronze mannikin, L. cucullata. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > seed eaters > [noun] > family Estrildidae (wax-bill) > miscellaneous types of firefinch1783 redhead1816 firetail1845 fire-tailed finch1845 zebra finch1868 magpie finch1869 cut-throat finch1872 melba finch1876 zebra1879 bluebill1955 1869–73 T. R. Jones tr. A. E. Brehm Cassell's Bk. Birds I. 158 The Magpie Finch is an inhabitant of the countries in the vicinity of the river Gambia. magpie goose n. a large black and white goose, Anseranas semipalmata, of New Guinea and northern Australia; also called pied goose. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > [noun] > member of subfamily Anserinea (goose) > anseranas selmipalmata (magpie goose) pied goose1860 magpie goose1861 1861 H. W. Wheelwright Bush Wanderings of Naturalist 70 The colour of the magpie-goose is pied, dull black and white. 1896 F. G. Aflalo Sketch Nat. Hist. Austral. 99 I have shot this ‘semi-palmated’ bird, known locally as ‘Magpie Goose’, in Cleveland Bay.., but it takes some killing. 1965 Austral. Encycl. III. 299/2 The magpie-goose, or pied goose, was formerly found throughout northern and eastern Australia. 1988 New Scientist 15 Oct. 54/1 The magpie goose, which once inhabited much of Australia, is now confined to small areas of tropical Australia. magpie lark n. any of several Australian birds of the family Grallinidae, esp. a common black and white stilt-legged bird, Grallina cyanoleuca, which builds a bowl-shaped mud nest (also called peewee). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > larger song birds > [noun] > family Grallinidae > grallina cyanoleuca (magpie lark) magpie lark1843 peewee1879 mudlark1898 Murray magpie1940 1843 J. Gould Birds Austral. (1848) II. Pl. 54 Grallina australis..Magpie Lark, Colonists of New South Wales. 1888 Cassell's Pict. Australasia II. 235 The little magpie-lark. 1931 M. M. Banks Memories Pioneer Days Queensland 73 The magpie-lark is a frequenter of gardens in every part of Australia. 1991 G. Pizzey Field Guide Birds Austral. 397 Magpie Larks are typically birds of river valleys and fringes of freshwaters, but..the Australian species is nevertheless very widely distributed. 1991 R. Howard & A. Moore Compl. Checklist Birds of World (ed. 2) 531/1 Grallinidae (Magpie larks). magpie-maki n. rare the ruffed lemur, Varecia variegata. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > [noun] > member of suborder Prosimii (lemurs, etc.) > member of family Lemuridae > genus Lemur (lemur) macaco1774 maki1774 mocock1791 lemur1795 magpie-maki1890 1890 Cent. Dict. Magpie-maki, the ruffed lemur, Lemur macaco, having black and white spots. magpie moth n. (a) , a white geometrid moth, Abraxas grossulariata, with black and usually some orange spots, whose caterpillar is a pest of currant, gooseberry, and other fruit bushes; (b) New Zealand a New Zealand day-flying moth, Nyctemera annulata (family Arctiidae), which is black with white spots and yellow abdominal stripes, and has large hairy larvae that feed on many plants. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Geometridae > abraxas grossulariata (magpie moth) magpie moth?1749 gooseberry-moth1816 currant-moth1858 ?1749 B. Wilkes Eng. Moths & Butterflies 42 The large magpye, or curran-moth. Most Gardens and Hedges abound with the Caterpillars of this Fly. 1819 G. Samouelle Entomologist's Compend. 252 Magpie moth (Abraxas grossulariata). 1890 E. A. Ormerod Man. Injurious Insects (ed. 2) 310 The caterpillars of the Magpie Moth sometimes do a great deal of mischief. 1922 G. M. Thomson Naturalisation Animals & Plants in N.Z. 512 The common magpie-moth (Nyctemera annulata) has certainly become extremely abundant wherever the introduced ragwort..has become a common pest. 1950 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. 80 15 June 586/1 Probably the best-known day-flying insect frequenting the flower garden is the magpie moth. 1971 R. Sharell N.Z. Insects ii. 63 A black moth, frequently seen flying in the daytime, is the Magpie moth, Nytemera annulata. 1989 M. Chinery Butterflies & Day-flying Moths Brit. & Europe 231 Not all aposematic caterpillars are taken with equal readiness. Those of the Magpie moth are shunned by nearly all predators. magpie perch n. a morwong of the genus Cheilodactylus, found off the coasts of southern Australia. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Scombroidei (mackerel) > [noun] > family Scombridae > member of genus Cheilodactylus (morwong) morwong1871 tarakihi1873 jackass fish1880 magpie perch1896 1896 F. G. Aflalo Sketch Nat. Hist. Austral. 236 While not occurring itself in Tasmanian waters, it is represented there by a near ally, the Magpie Perch (Chilodactylus nigripes). 1908 D. G. Stead Edible Fishes New S. Wales 72 Banded Morwong or Magpie Perch. 1995 Trans. Royal Soc. S. Austral. 119 113 Underwater surveys and observations of tagged fish were used to examine..a small population of Magpie Perch, Cheilodactylus nigripes. magpie robin n. (a) a long-tailed black and white songbird, Copsychus saularis, of the thrush family ( Turdidae), found in South and South-East Asia; also called dial-bird; (b) either of two related birds, C. sechellarum of the Seychelles, and C. albospecularis of Madagascar. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Turdinae > [noun] > genus Copsichus (shama) dayal bird1738 dayal1751 magpie robin1839 shama1839 1839 Madras Jrnl. 10 263 Dial bird... Large or Magpie Robin. 1855 W. S. Dallas in Orr's Circle Sci.: Org. Nature III. 307 The Dayal..which..is called the Magpie Robin by the English residents in Ceylon. 1936 Discovery July 211/2 I saw, or thought I saw, a Magpie Robin..take a Catopsilia in my garden at Taipeng. 1992 World (BBC) Apr. 65 Above it..may be heard the careless song of the Seychelles magpie robin, one of the last 22 surviving members of its species. magpie shrike n. †(a) the magpie tanager, Cissopis leveriana (obsolete); (b) a long-tailed black and white shrike, Corvinella melanoleuca (family Laniidae), of eastern and southern Africa. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > seed eaters > [noun] > family Emberizidae > subfamily Thraupinae (tanager) > other types of magpie shrike1781 organist1793 semp1937 magpie tanager1958 1781 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds I. i. 192 Magpie Shrike. Size of a Song~thrush: length ten inches. 1955 C. W. Mackworth-Praed & C. H. B. Grant Birds E. & N.E. Afr. II. 605 Magpie-shrike. Urolestes melanoleucus. magpie tanager n. a large South American songbird, Cissopis leveriana (family Emberizidae), with black and white plumage and a long tail. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > seed eaters > [noun] > family Emberizidae > subfamily Thraupinae (tanager) > other types of magpie shrike1781 organist1793 semp1937 magpie tanager1958 1958 E. T. Gilliard Living Birds of World 377/2 Among other tanagers we must at least mention..the shining black-and-white Magpie Tanager (Cissopis leveriana), which ranges over most of South America. 1989 R. S. Ridgely & G. Tudor Birds S. Amer. I. 337 (heading) Magpie Tanager... An unmistakable large, very long tailed black and white tanager with piercing yellow eyes. Derivatives ˈmagpied adj. made like a magpie.Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1845 ‘E. Warburton’ Crescent & Cross I. 64 Black slaves, magpied with white napkins round their head and loins. ˈmagpieish adj. magpie-like.Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1880 Daily News 9 Aug. 2/2 Money, which..had been abstracted and disposed of in a magpieish spirit of mischief. ˈmagpie-like adj. resembling (that of) a magpie. ΚΠ 1805 T. Harrol Scenes of Life III. 104 What was before black had now assumed a magpie-like appearance. 1979 London Rev. Bks. 25 Oct. 21/4 A keen and magpie-like interest in the newest follies of Japanese medical technology. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1589 |
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