maggie
(ˈmægɪ)
[f. Mag n.2 + -ie.]
1. Sc. A girl.
| 1603 Philotus cxxxvi, Ȝe trowit to get ane burd of blisse, To haue ane of thir Maggies. 1819 G. Beattie Ketty Pert Poems (1826) 83 Troth, little profit has she made By fisher maggies. |
2. a. Sc. Local name for the Common Guillemot (Alca troile).
| 1885 in Swainson Provinc. Names Birds. |
b. dial. and Austral. A magpie.
| 1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words 131 Maggy, a magpie. 1878 Zoologist Sept. 332/1 Magpie. Piet; Maggie. 1934 Bulletin (Sydney) 19 Sept. 21/2 Out maggie went backwards through the door, arguing every inch of the ground. 1965 Jrnl. Lancs. Dial. Soc. Jan. 7 Maggie: Tunstall, Burton, Hornby, Bentham, [etc.]. |
3. Rifle-shooting. = magpie 7, Mag n.2 3.
| 1901 Daily Chron. 22 July 7/2 The Englishman fired again, and once more it was only a ‘maggie’. |
4. In full, Maggie Ann (also Maggy Anne). Margarine. colloq.
| 1933 Partridge Slang To-day & Yesterday 385 Maggie Ann. Margarine: C20. 1959 I. & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolch. ix. 163 Margarine or ‘marg’ is ‘Maggy Anne’. 1971 D. Lees Rainbow Conspiracy vi. 91 Sam never paid him enough to put maggy on his bread. |