Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See magot-pie.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete A magpie.

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Examples

  • Shakespeare uses maggot-pie for magpie (Macbeth, iii, 4).

    The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909

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  • ewwwwwwwwwwwww. that's, like, sooo gross!

    November 30, 2007

  • Hey, watch your tongue, there are starving kids in Uganda who would kill for a taste of this stuff!

    Nah, who am I kidding? That's nasty.

    November 30, 2007

  • I think they might prefer it to casu marzu or surstromming.

    November 30, 2007