magpie
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8.1
- noun
- /ˈmæɡ.paɪ/
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recolector
- She, the magpie with her beak full of metal scraps, thought for a moment about leaving them both there: the desk, the man.
I was the magpie in my own nest.
- I was the magpie in my own nest.
Examples
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Some people get to keep the tower of life they built from magpie scraps and hints of passion and talent.
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I am a man child with a bank card and I see the pretty thing and like a magpie and I take it to the counter and I'm like cash or card.
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Like a magpie, I tend to steal the shiny stuff and discard the rest.
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A total magpie!
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As a true magpie, she fills her home with all sorts of treasures she finds at thrift stores.
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He is known as a magpie, always gathering discarded items and turning them into something beautiful.
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Being a magpie at heart, she has a collection of vintage trinkets that others would have thrown away.
Synonyms
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3.0
A person who gathers and keeps special items like stamps
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5.5
A person who searches through trash for things to reuse or sell
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3.2
A person who collects wild plants and berries for a living
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5.5
A person who keeps many things and rarely throws them away, making their home very full
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8.4
A person who keeps many things and does not like to throw them away
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3.3
A person who collects trash and looks for things to use again or sell
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7.7
A person who carefully gathers small amounts of information or resources
A person or animal who searches through messy things like bins to find useful items
A person who collects litter from places like beaches or parks
A person who collects old broken things and fixes them for fun
Antonyms
Idioms
Compounds
A black and white bird with a long tail that lives in the western mountains of North America
- Australian
A large black and white bird from Australia that sings a beautiful, musical song
How Collecting
Surface Forms
Morphology
magpie = Mag + pie (opaque) = mag + pie
This sense is a conventional metaphorical extension from the bird's collecting behavior, so the parts do not directly yield 'a collector of discarded things'.
Etymology
Magpie is also used for someone who collects many small things because the bird often takes bright, 'shiny' objects. So a human magpie is a person who loves to gather and keep little treasures.