■ noun
1》 a long-tailed bird of the crow family, typically with black-and-white plumage and a noisy call. [ Pica pica and other species.]
↘a black-and-white Australian butcher-bird with a musical call. [ Gymnorhina tibicen .]
2》 a person who obsessively collects things or who chatters idly.
3》 the division of a circular target next to the outer one, or a shot which strikes this.
Origin
C16: prob. shortening of dialect maggot the pie , maggoty-pie , from Magot (ME familiar form of the given name Marguerite ) + pie 2 .