2.informalCOLLECT someone who likes collecting things 爱收集东西的人
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magpie• One of these birds is depicted as a magpie.• There were blackbirds and thrushes and skylarks and ravens and starlings and jays and magpies and many kinds of small finches.• As they reached the edge of the clearing Philip saw the deadmagpie.• He and his silly birds would have to go eventually, of course, because he made the magpiesnervous.• As a result, the magpiepopulationdropped dramatically: in one village, from 259 birds to just 77.• As she stepped out into the moonlight, two magpies landed on the thatch.
Originmagpie
(1500-1600)Mag female name (from Margaret) + pie“magpie”((13-20 centuries)) (from Old French, from Latinpica)