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magpies

magpies is the plural of magpie.

magpies is the third-person singular simple present indicative of magpie.

Meaning of magpie

Noun

magpie (plural magpies)

  1. One of several kinds of bird in the family Corvidae, especially Pica pica.
  2. A superficially similar Australian bird, Gymnorhina tibicen, in the family Artamidae.
  3. (figuratively) Someone who displays a magpie-like quality such as hoarding or stealing objects.
    • Not only is Mr. Booker a voracious magpie (who does not always acknowledge the sources of his ideas), but he also turns out to be an annoyingly biased and didactic one.2005 April 15, Michiko Kakutani, “The Plot Thins, or Are No Stories New?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
  4. (slang) A fan or member of Newcastle United F.C.
  5. (UK) In the sport of fullbore target rifle, the third circle on a target, between the inner and outer.
  6. (UK, obsolete, slang) A halfpenny.

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Noun capitalized: Magpies

Magpies

  1. Newcastle United Football Club
  2. (plural) plural of Magpie

Words formed from magpies

Phrases with magpies

Questions about magpies

What does magpies mean?
Magpies means newcastle United Football Club.
What is magpies the plural of?
Magpies is the plural of magpie.
What part of speech is magpies?
Magpies is a noun.

Words near magpies in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: magpies (page history and authors); Magpies (page history and authors); magpie (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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