magpie:
(plural: ‘magpies‘; pronunciation: the letter ‘g’ is said with a ‘g’ sound as in “gun” — ‘mag’…’pie’ — for the right pronunciation, please click here)
a lovely magpie (a fashionable lady in love with ornaments)
a person who likes to collect different objects just for the sake of collecting them even when those objects are not useful;
a person who pays a lot attention to his looks and dress;
a person who talks a lot — goes on talking nonsense (unimportant matters);
a person who likes to talk all the time; a chatterer,
a magpie, go on talking and talking
Neighbours think that little Charlie is a magpie for collecting all the shiny objects, including bottle caps, and are worried that he’s only a step away from being a kleptomaniac.
Maggie is known to be the best magpie in her clique for her fondness to dress more colourfully than the others.
Now, some of my clients, very valuable though, are real magpies, who, even after their business is over, sit with me for hours on end chatting and chatting until my secretary asks them to leave, politely of course, because there are other clients to be seen!
Political magpies, politicians who run for political positions, become increasingly gregarious as the elections approach, and keep on making one speech after another until the end of their election campaign.
