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magpielike

magpielike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a magpie, especially in the habit of hoarding objects.

Adjective

magpielike (comparative more magpielike, superlative most magpielike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a magpie, especially in the habit of hoarding objects.
    • Conceived as a live spectacle without a pre-recorded soundtrack, it is also the closest he has come to a pure silent feature, not that purity is a pertinent concept in the case of the magpielike Mr. Maddin and his dense, crossbred melodramas.2007 May 7, Dennis Lim, “Newfangled Silent Movie With a Bit of Old Barnum”, in New York Times

Forms of magpielike

comparativemore magpielike
superlativemost magpielike

Origin of magpielike

From magpie + -like.

Questions about magpielike

What does magpielike mean?
Magpielike means resembling or characteristic of a magpie, especially in the habit of hoarding objects.
What part of speech is magpielike?
Magpielike is an adjective.

Words near magpielike in the dictionary

  1. magpie-robin
  2. magpie-robins
  3. magpied
  4. magpieing
  5. magpieish
  6. magpielike
  7. magpies
  8. MAgr
  9. Magra
  10. Magrath
  11. magre

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