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• I'd say yes, if that magpie tittering knew about your beliefs, this same would have happened.2020 February 24, Kalomoira, “Question about discrimination of religion”, in reddit.com, archived from the original on 25 Jul 2026. From the entry tittering
• Empiricism, magpie amassment of cultural detail, produces an ethnographic telephone book.1995, Clifford Geertz, chapter 2, in After the Fact: Two Countries, Four Decades, One Anthropologist,, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University…. From the entry amassment
• You understand what darkies are—as curious as magpies and quite as lighthanded.1922, Van Tassel Sutphen, In Jeopardy, →ISBN. From the entry light-handed
• Taiwan blue magpie, which is legally protected but raised by nobody in Taiwan, appears in Sinyi District, Taipei.[2022, “Unicorn and Taiwan Blue Magpie”, in Law Office of Eric Chung, archived from the original on 05 Mar 2023. From the entry Xinyi
• The park is one of Australia's chief refuges for several bird species, including the Burdekin duck and magpie goose.2002, Rob Van Driesum, Lonely Planet Outback Australia, page 388. From the entry Burdekin duck
• A short way off, two male butcher birds, black and white like magpies, were calling antiphonally across a ravine.1987, Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines, Vintage, published 1998, page 224. From the entry butcherbird
• The park is one of the chief refuges in Australia for several species, among them the magpie goose, green pygmy-goose and Burdekin duck.2003, Susannah Farfor, David Andrew, Hugh Finlay, Northern Territory, page 145. From the entry Burdekin duck
• Easy to see native pyralids include the day-flying mint moth, which can be found among garden herbs and the small magpie – a surprisingly large black and white moth.2018 June 14, Patrick Barkham, The Guardian. From the entry mint moth
• The unifying thread is a kind of magpie postminimalism, which invigorates familiar abstract strategies — grids, serial repetition, reductive forms — using materials scavenged from everyday life.2007 January 5, The New York Times, “Art in Review”, in New York Times. From the entry postminimalism
• I remember as a boy in my native land the bad name the common magpie (Pica caudata) had as a destroyer of chickens, and a robber of nests.1907, Frederick William D'Evelyn, “Slaughter of Blue Jays”, in The Condor, volume 9, number 2. From the entry robber
• Anna Wise and Dane Orr take their name from a Sonny Rollins composition, though their magpie post-pop sound owes as much to Björkish folktronica as it does to vintage jazz.2015 April, Sam Richards, “New Albums”, in Uncut, page 83. From the entry Björkish

Meaning of magpie

1. noun One of several kinds of bird in the family Corvidae, especially Pica pica.
2. noun A superficially similar Australian bird, Gymnorhina tibicen, in the family Artamidae.
3. noun Someone who displays a magpie-like quality such as hoarding or stealing objects.

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How do you use magpie in a sentence?

Magpie is used as a noun and verb. For example: “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.”

What is a short sentence with magpie?

“Empiricism, magpie amassment of cultural detail, produces an ethnographic telephone book.”

What does magpie mean?

Magpie means one of several kinds of bird in the family Corvidae, especially Pica pica.