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Noun: magpie  'mag,pI
  1. Long-tailed black-and-white crow that utters a raucous chattering call
     
  2. Someone who collects things that have been discarded by others
    - scavenger, pack rat
     
  3. Someone who talks a lot, esp. someone who talks too much or foolishly
    - chatterer, babbler, prater, chatterbox, spouter

Derived forms: magpies

Type of: corvine bird, hoarder, speaker, talker, utterer, verbaliser [Brit], verbalizer

Part of: genus Pica, Pica

Encyclopedia: Magpie, Victoria