maggien.

Brit.

/ˈmaɡi/, U.S.

/ˈmæɡi/

Forms: 1600s– maggie, 1800s– maggy.

Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Maggie.

Etymology: < Maggie, pet form (compare -y suffix⁶) of the female forenames Margaret (see Margaret n.) and (in early use probably also) Margery (see margery n.¹), in senses 2 and 3 after senses of magpie n. (compare mag n.⁴).Maggie Ann (see Compounds) represents a humorous alteration of margarine, originating at a time when the pronunciation /mɑːɡəˈriːn/ was widely used.

†a. Scottish. A girl. Obsolete.Dict. Older Sc. Tongue (1967) defines the word as ‘a (?rustic, ?hoydenish, ?trollopy or sluttish) girl’. Cf. sense 1b.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > person > child > girl > [noun]

maiden-childeOE

maidenOE

maidc1275

maid-childc1275

wenchc1290

thernec1300

lassc1325

maidenkinc1330

child-womana1382

girlc1400

pucelle1439

maidkin1440

mawther1440

mop1466

woman-child?1515

bonnea1529

urchina1535

kinchin-mort1567

dandiprat1582

prill1587

sluta1592

little girl1603

maggie1603

tendril1603

squall1607

childa1616

filly1616

vriester1652

miss1668

gilpie1720

lassie1725

laddess1768

jeune fillea1777

bitch1785

girly?1786

gal1795

ladyling1807

missikin1815

colleen1828

girleen1833

snowdrop1833

pinafore1836

chica1843

fillette1847

charity-girl1848

urchiness1852

Mädchen1854

gel1857

pusill1884

backfisch1888

girly-girly1888

cliner1895

tittie1918

weeny1929

bobby-soxer1944

1603 Philotus cxxxvi. sig. E4 Ȝe trowit to get ane burd of blisse, To haue ane of thir Maggies.

1819 G. Beattie Ketty Pert in Poems (1826) 83 Troth, little profit has she made By fisher maggies.

b. U.S. slang. A prostitute.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > a prostitute

meretrixOE

whoreOE

soiled dovea1250

common womanc1330

putec1384

bordel womanc1405

putaina1425

brothelc1450

harlot?a1475

public womanc1510

naughty pack?1529

draba1533

cat1535

strange woman1535

stew1552

causey-paikera1555

putanie?1566

drivelling1570

twigger1573

punka1575

hackney1579

customer1583

commodity1591

streetwalker1591

traffic1591

trug1591

hackster1592

polecat1593

stale1593

mermaid1595

medlar1597

occupant1598

Paphian1598

Winchester goose1598

pagan1600

hell-moth1602

aunt1604

moll1604

prostitution1605

community1606

miss1606

night-worm1606

bat1607

croshabell1607

prostitute1607

pug1607

venturer1607

nag1608

curtal1611

jumbler1611

land-frigate1611

walk-street1611

doll-common1612

turn-up1612

barber's chaira1616

commonera1616

public commonera1616

trader1615

venturea1616

stewpot1616

tweak1617

carry-knave1623

prostibule1623

fling-dusta1625

mar-taila1625

night-shadea1625

waistcoateera1625

night trader1630

coolera1632

meretrician1631

painted ladya1637

treadle1638

buttock1641

night-walker1648

mob?1650

lady (also girl, etc.) of the game1651

lady of pleasure1652

trugmullion1654

fallen woman1659

girlc1662

high-flyer1663

fireship1665

quaedama1670

small girl1671

visor-mask1672

vizard-mask1672

bulker1673

marmalade-madam1674

town miss1675

town woman1675

lady of the night1677

mawks1677

fling-stink1679

Whetstone whore1684

man-leech1687

nocturnal1693

hack1699

strum1699

fille de joie1705

market-dame1706

screw1725

girl of (the) town1733

Cytherean1751

street girl1764

monnisher1765

lady of easy virtue1766

woman (also lady) of the town1766

kennel-nymph1771

chicken1782

stargazer1785

loose fish1809

receiver general1811

Cyprian1819

mollya1822

dolly-mop1834

hooker1845

charver1846

tail1846

horse-breaker1861

professional1862

flagger1865

cocodette1867

cocotte1867

queen's woman1871

common prostitute1875

joro1884

geisha1887

horizontal1888

flossy1893

moth1896

girl of the pavement1900

pross1902

prossie1902

pusher1902

split-arse mechanic1903

broad1914

shawl1922

bum1923

quiff1923

hustler1924

lady of the evening1924

prostie1926

working girl1928

prostisciutto1930

maggie1932

brass1934

brass nail1934

mud kicker1934

scupper1935

model1936

poule de luxe1937

pro1937

chromo1941

Tom1941

pan-pan1949

twopenny upright1958

scrubber1959

slack1959

yum-yum girl1960

Suzie Wong1962

mattress1964

jamette1965

ho1966

sex worker1971

pavement princess1976

parlour girl1979

crack whore1990

1932 L. Berg Prison Doctor 215 Got so bad even a good crook couldn't make an honest living! Even the maggies complained that the amateurs were ruining the business!

a. British regional. The magpie, Pica pica.

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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

1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words Maggy, a magpie.

1878 Zoologist 2 332/1 Magpie. Piet; Maggie.

1965 Jrnl. Lancs. Dial. Soc. Jan. 7 Maggie: Tunstall, Burton, Hornby, Bentham, [etc.].

b. Scottish. The guillemot, Uria aalge.

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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Alcidae (auks) > [noun]

maggie1885

1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds 218 Maggie (Forfar). From the black and white plumage, resembling that of a magpie.

c. Australian. The Australian magpie, Gymnorhina tibicen.

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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

1901 Bulletin (Sydney) 5 Oct. 17/1 Has ‘Gumleaf’..ever seen two maggies marked alike?

1934 Bulletin (Sydney) 19 Sept. 21/2 Out maggie went backwards through the door, arguing every inch of the ground.

1990 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 20 July 17/5 The familiar black and white ‘maggie’ of our urban parks and gardens reduces our pesticide use by eating lawn grubs and other pests.

3. British. Rifle-shooting. = magpie n. 7.

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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

1901 Daily Chron. 22 July 7/2 The Englishman fired again, and once more it was only a ‘maggie’.

4. British (colloquial and Army slang). = Maggie Ann n. at Compounds.

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the world > food and drink > food > fat or oil > [noun] > vegetable oil or margarine

palm oil1625

vegetable oil1651

butter of mace1694

Negro-oil1753

sunflower oil1768

Galam butter1782

vegetable butter1790

vegetable fat1797

winter oil1811

butter substitute1834

red palm oil1836

butter oil1844

shea butter1847

palm butter1848

vegetable lard1859

palm-kernel oil1863

butterine1866

margarine1873

oleomargarine1873

bosch1879

oleo1884

oleo oil1884

vegetable shortening1892

Nucoline1894

almond butter1895

nut butter1896

Nutter1906

marge1919

Maggie Ann1931

sun oil1937

vanaspati1949

maggie1971

canola oil1982

1971 D. Lees Rainbow Conspiracy vi. 91 Sam never paid him enough to put maggy on his bread.

Compounds

Maggie Ann n. British (colloquial and Army slang) margarine.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > fat or oil > [noun] > vegetable oil or margarine

palm oil1625

vegetable oil1651

butter of mace1694

Negro-oil1753

sunflower oil1768

Galam butter1782

vegetable butter1790

vegetable fat1797

winter oil1811

butter substitute1834

red palm oil1836

butter oil1844

shea butter1847

palm butter1848

vegetable lard1859

palm-kernel oil1863

butterine1866

margarine1873

oleomargarine1873

bosch1879

oleo1884

oleo oil1884

vegetable shortening1892

Nucoline1894

almond butter1895

nut butter1896

Nutter1906

marge1919

Maggie Ann1931

sun oil1937

vanaspati1949

maggie1971

canola oil1982

1931 J. Brophy & E. Partridge Songs & Slang Brit. Soldier: 1914–1918 (ed. 3) 331 Maggie Ann, margarine.

1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren ix. 163 Margarine or ‘marg’ is ‘Maggy Anne’.

maggie-many-feet n. (also maggie-many-legs and variants) Scottish (in later use also English regional (north-eastern) and Irish English (northern)) = Meggie-many-feet n. at Meggie n. 1.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Myriapoda > [noun]

maggie-many-feet1784

Meggie-many-feet1825

Myriapoda1828

1784 Gentleman's Mag. 2 506 We have many droll names of insects, as the Cloc, King-Colin, Horngloach, Maggy-with-the-Mony-Feet, etc.

1861 E. B. Ramsay Reminisc. Sc. Life 164 It is a little black beastie, about the size of my thoom nail. The country folks ca' them Clocks; and I believe, they ca' them also Maggy-wi'-the-mony-feet.

1876 S. Smiles Life Sc. Naturalist ii. 35 It's a Maggy Monny Feet.

c1920 G. B. Thomson in Sc. National Dict. (1965) at Meg n. Wi' a thoosan maggie-mony-feets crawlin' doon yer back.

1975 J. Y. Mather & H. H. Speitel Ling. Atlas Scotl. I. 310 Centipede, Maggie many feet, Maggie many legs. (Scotland and north-east England.)

1996 C. I. Macafee Conc. Ulster Dict. 214/2 Maggie-mony-feet,..1. a centipede. 2. a millipede.

Maggie's drawers n. [thought to be a reference to a song, Those Old Red Flannel Drawers that Maggie Wore (see Amer. Speech (1942) 17 68/2); compare sense 3] U.S. Military slang a red flag used to indicate a miss in target practice.

ΚΠ

1936 Our Army July 37/1 Home, home on the range, where all of the bolos roam, Where seldom is heard, ‘Bull's Eye’ as a word, And Maggie's drawers wave all the day.

1943 Sat. Evening Post 20 Mar. 86/3 I've given them ten Maggie's drawers in the last five minutes. I could lay it in the black better with my boon dockers.

1953 L. M. Uris Battle Cry i. v. 64 In the pits there was also a red flag, the nemesis of a rifleman. ‘Maggie's drawers’, it was called—the signal for a complete miss.

1966 Sunday Times 4 Dec. (Colour Suppl.) 73/2 Maggie's Drawers, red flag waved on a rifle range to indicate that target was unmarked.

1990 G. R. Clark Words of Vietnam War 310 On several occasions during the NVA siege of Khe Sanh, Marines waved a pair of Maggie's drawers at the NVA gunners.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	maggie
释义	maggien. Brit. /ˈmaɡi/, U.S. /ˈmæɡi/ Forms: 1600s– maggie, 1800s– maggy. Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Maggie. Etymology: < Maggie, pet form (compare -y suffix⁶) of the female forenames Margaret (see Margaret n.) and (in early use probably also) Margery (see margery n.¹), in senses 2 and 3 after senses of magpie n. (compare mag n.⁴).Maggie Ann (see Compounds) represents a humorous alteration of margarine, originating at a time when the pronunciation /mɑːɡəˈriːn/ was widely used. 1. †a. Scottish. A girl. Obsolete.Dict. Older Sc. Tongue (1967) defines the word as ‘a (?rustic, ?hoydenish, ?trollopy or sluttish) girl’. Cf. sense 1b. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > child > girl > [noun] maiden-childeOE maidenOE maidc1275 maid-childc1275 wenchc1290 thernec1300 lassc1325 maidenkinc1330 child-womana1382 girlc1400 pucelle1439 maidkin1440 mawther1440 mop1466 woman-child?1515 bonnea1529 urchina1535 kinchin-mort1567 dandiprat1582 prill1587 sluta1592 little girl1603 maggie1603 tendril1603 squall1607 childa1616 filly1616 vriester1652 miss1668 gilpie1720 lassie1725 laddess1768 jeune fillea1777 bitch1785 girly?1786 gal1795 ladyling1807 missikin1815 colleen1828 girleen1833 snowdrop1833 pinafore1836 chica1843 fillette1847 charity-girl1848 urchiness1852 Mädchen1854 gel1857 pusill1884 backfisch1888 girly-girly1888 cliner1895 tittie1918 weeny1929 bobby-soxer1944 1603 Philotus cxxxvi. sig. E4 Ȝe trowit to get ane burd of blisse, To haue ane of thir Maggies. 1819 G. Beattie Ketty Pert in Poems (1826) 83 Troth, little profit has she made By fisher maggies. b. U.S. slang. A prostitute. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > a prostitute meretrixOE whoreOE soiled dovea1250 common womanc1330 putec1384 bordel womanc1405 putaina1425 brothelc1450 harlot?a1475 public womanc1510 naughty pack?1529 draba1533 cat1535 strange woman1535 stew1552 causey-paikera1555 putanie?1566 drivelling1570 twigger1573 punka1575 hackney1579 customer1583 commodity1591 streetwalker1591 traffic1591 trug1591 hackster1592 polecat1593 stale1593 mermaid1595 medlar1597 occupant1598 Paphian1598 Winchester goose1598 pagan1600 hell-moth1602 aunt1604 moll1604 prostitution1605 community1606 miss1606 night-worm1606 bat1607 croshabell1607 prostitute1607 pug1607 venturer1607 nag1608 curtal1611 jumbler1611 land-frigate1611 walk-street1611 doll-common1612 turn-up1612 barber's chaira1616 commonera1616 public commonera1616 trader1615 venturea1616 stewpot1616 tweak1617 carry-knave1623 prostibule1623 fling-dusta1625 mar-taila1625 night-shadea1625 waistcoateera1625 night trader1630 coolera1632 meretrician1631 painted ladya1637 treadle1638 buttock1641 night-walker1648 mob?1650 lady (also girl, etc.) of the game1651 lady of pleasure1652 trugmullion1654 fallen woman1659 girlc1662 high-flyer1663 fireship1665 quaedama1670 small girl1671 visor-mask1672 vizard-mask1672 bulker1673 marmalade-madam1674 town miss1675 town woman1675 lady of the night1677 mawks1677 fling-stink1679 Whetstone whore1684 man-leech1687 nocturnal1693 hack1699 strum1699 fille de joie1705 market-dame1706 screw1725 girl of (the) town1733 Cytherean1751 street girl1764 monnisher1765 lady of easy virtue1766 woman (also lady) of the town1766 kennel-nymph1771 chicken1782 stargazer1785 loose fish1809 receiver general1811 Cyprian1819 mollya1822 dolly-mop1834 hooker1845 charver1846 tail1846 horse-breaker1861 professional1862 flagger1865 cocodette1867 cocotte1867 queen's woman1871 common prostitute1875 joro1884 geisha1887 horizontal1888 flossy1893 moth1896 girl of the pavement1900 pross1902 prossie1902 pusher1902 split-arse mechanic1903 broad1914 shawl1922 bum1923 quiff1923 hustler1924 lady of the evening1924 prostie1926 working girl1928 prostisciutto1930 maggie1932 brass1934 brass nail1934 mud kicker1934 scupper1935 model1936 poule de luxe1937 pro1937 chromo1941 Tom1941 pan-pan1949 twopenny upright1958 scrubber1959 slack1959 yum-yum girl1960 Suzie Wong1962 mattress1964 jamette1965 ho1966 sex worker1971 pavement princess1976 parlour girl1979 crack whore1990 1932 L. Berg Prison Doctor 215 Got so bad even a good crook couldn't make an honest living! Even the maggies complained that the amateurs were ruining the business! 2. a. British regional. The magpie, Pica pica. 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 1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words Maggy, a magpie. 1878 Zoologist 2 332/1 Magpie. Piet; Maggie. 1965 Jrnl. Lancs. Dial. Soc. Jan. 7 Maggie: Tunstall, Burton, Hornby, Bentham, [etc.]. b. Scottish. The guillemot, Uria aalge. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Alcidae (auks) > [noun] maggie1885 1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds 218 Maggie (Forfar). From the black and white plumage, resembling that of a magpie. c. Australian. The Australian magpie, Gymnorhina tibicen. 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 1901 Bulletin (Sydney) 5 Oct. 17/1 Has ‘Gumleaf’..ever seen two maggies marked alike? 1934 Bulletin (Sydney) 19 Sept. 21/2 Out maggie went backwards through the door, arguing every inch of the ground. 1990 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 20 July 17/5 The familiar black and white ‘maggie’ of our urban parks and gardens reduces our pesticide use by eating lawn grubs and other pests. 3. British. Rifle-shooting. = magpie n. 7. 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 1901 Daily Chron. 22 July 7/2 The Englishman fired again, and once more it was only a ‘maggie’. 4. British (colloquial and Army slang). = Maggie Ann n. at Compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fat or oil > [noun] > vegetable oil or margarine palm oil1625 vegetable oil1651 butter of mace1694 Negro-oil1753 sunflower oil1768 Galam butter1782 vegetable butter1790 vegetable fat1797 winter oil1811 butter substitute1834 red palm oil1836 butter oil1844 shea butter1847 palm butter1848 vegetable lard1859 palm-kernel oil1863 butterine1866 margarine1873 oleomargarine1873 bosch1879 oleo1884 oleo oil1884 vegetable shortening1892 Nucoline1894 almond butter1895 nut butter1896 Nutter1906 marge1919 Maggie Ann1931 sun oil1937 vanaspati1949 maggie1971 canola oil1982 1971 D. Lees Rainbow Conspiracy vi. 91 Sam never paid him enough to put maggy on his bread. Compounds Maggie Ann n. British (colloquial and Army slang) margarine. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fat or oil > [noun] > vegetable oil or margarine palm oil1625 vegetable oil1651 butter of mace1694 Negro-oil1753 sunflower oil1768 Galam butter1782 vegetable butter1790 vegetable fat1797 winter oil1811 butter substitute1834 red palm oil1836 butter oil1844 shea butter1847 palm butter1848 vegetable lard1859 palm-kernel oil1863 butterine1866 margarine1873 oleomargarine1873 bosch1879 oleo1884 oleo oil1884 vegetable shortening1892 Nucoline1894 almond butter1895 nut butter1896 Nutter1906 marge1919 Maggie Ann1931 sun oil1937 vanaspati1949 maggie1971 canola oil1982 1931 J. Brophy & E. Partridge Songs & Slang Brit. Soldier: 1914–1918 (ed. 3) 331 Maggie Ann, margarine. 1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren ix. 163 Margarine or ‘marg’ is ‘Maggy Anne’. maggie-many-feet n. (also maggie-many-legs and variants) Scottish (in later use also English regional (north-eastern) and Irish English (northern)) = Meggie-many-feet n. at Meggie n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Myriapoda > [noun] maggie-many-feet1784 Meggie-many-feet1825 Myriapoda1828 1784 Gentleman's Mag. 2 506 We have many droll names of insects, as the Cloc, King-Colin, Horngloach, Maggy-with-the-Mony-Feet, etc. 1861 E. B. Ramsay Reminisc. Sc. Life 164 It is a little black beastie, about the size of my thoom nail. The country folks ca' them Clocks; and I believe, they ca' them also Maggy-wi'-the-mony-feet. 1876 S. Smiles Life Sc. Naturalist ii. 35 It's a Maggy Monny Feet. c1920 G. B. Thomson in Sc. National Dict. (1965) at Meg n. Wi' a thoosan maggie-mony-feets crawlin' doon yer back. 1975 J. Y. Mather & H. H. Speitel Ling. Atlas Scotl. I. 310 Centipede, Maggie many feet, Maggie many legs. (Scotland and north-east England.) 1996 C. I. Macafee Conc. Ulster Dict. 214/2 Maggie-mony-feet,..1. a centipede. 2. a millipede. Maggie's drawers n. [thought to be a reference to a song, Those Old Red Flannel Drawers that Maggie Wore (see Amer. Speech (1942) 17 68/2); compare sense 3] U.S. Military slang a red flag used to indicate a miss in target practice. ΚΠ 1936 Our Army July 37/1 Home, home on the range, where all of the bolos roam, Where seldom is heard, ‘Bull's Eye’ as a word, And Maggie's drawers wave all the day. 1943 Sat. Evening Post 20 Mar. 86/3 I've given them ten Maggie's drawers in the last five minutes. I could lay it in the black better with my boon dockers. 1953 L. M. Uris Battle Cry i. v. 64 In the pits there was also a red flag, the nemesis of a rifleman. ‘Maggie's drawers’, it was called—the signal for a complete miss. 1966 Sunday Times 4 Dec. (Colour Suppl.) 73/2 Maggie's Drawers, red flag waved on a rifle range to indicate that target was unmarked. 1990 G. R. Clark Words of Vietnam War 310 On several occasions during the NVA siege of Khe Sanh, Marines waved a pair of Maggie's drawers at the NVA gunners. 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