magpie
喜鹊,扁鹊,鹊桥,鹊山
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Definitions
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- : either of two corvine birds, Pica pica, of Eurasia and North America, or P. nuttalli, of California, having long, graduated tails, black-and-white plumage, and noisy, mischievous habits.
- : any of several related corvine birds.
- : any of several black-and-white birds not related to the true magpies, as Gymnorhina tibicen, of Australia.
- : an incessantly talkative person; noisy chatterer; chatterbox.
- : a person who collects or hoards things, especially indiscriminately.
- : Western U.S. a black-and-white cow or steer, as a Holstein.
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Examples
She’s depressed and isolating herself from her loved ones, but things start to change for the better once an injured baby magpie named Penguin is fatefully brought into her life.
Television is a magpie, and it will take back to its stuffed nest whatever shiny things it can find.
Instead, he was more of a magpie, listening to what came before and incorporating it into his own inimitable music.
Turn Up The Trustafarian Chic: As Tory Burch said of her collection, it's "American prep meets magpie traveler."
But the latter caught him by the coat sleeve and held on while she chattered like a magpie to the young college man.
Could that be the wild beasts of which the magpie had warned him?
"She doesn't believe you, anyhow," said Lionel to the magpie.
The meadowlark was given a pleasing voice so that his songs would make the magpie ashamed.
Harakka, the Magpie, sitting on her nest among her fledglings began to feel nervous.