Talk:magpie

What does the "pie" part of magpie mean? That really needs to be made clear in the Etymology. Tooironic 06:35, 16 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Might be related to pied: (coloured in blotches). Just a guess though. Equinox ◑ 00:42, 17 October 2009 (UTC)

further to the above, the assertion that 'mag' is derived from Margaret requires documentation too.


 * This isn’t Wikipedia where everything requires documentation. However, mag is indeed from Margaret, a name long used as a metaphor for women who indulge in idle chatter, and pie is from Old French pie, from Latin, from PIE root *(s)peik- (woodpecker, magpie). —Stephen (Talk) 12:06, 23 December 2012 (UTC)

"chatterbox" as a noun
Is this missing the sense "chatterbox"? The etymology, the verb sense and its presence in Thesaurus:chatterbox seem to hint towards that. Catonif (talk) 19:00, 5 January 2023 (UTC)