magpie
意味
- カササギ(黒と白の羽をもち,カチカチと鳴くカラス科の鳥)
- 《話》(カササギのような)おしゃべり屋
語源
英語の原文(Wiktionary)
From Mag, a nickname for Margaret that was used to denote a chatterer, + archaic pie (“magpie”), from Middle English pie, pye, from Old French pie, from Latin pīca, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peyk- (“woodpecker, magpie”). Displaced native Old English agu (“magpie”) and Middle English aguster (“magpie”), whence English haggister.