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maggie
/ˈmæɡi/
name 2noun 2
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2VERB + MAGGIE
called, name
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in
Definitions
name
1
A diminutive of the female given name Margaret.
Maggie. Never in her life had she heard her mother called Maggie. It was a name from her youth, that dead time Jerene had never been allowed to talk about [- - -]. Her mother was Margaret now.
I could tell that some of the guests were confused by the name of Maggie―no-one had called her by that clunky, unfashionable name in years―
2
Margaret Thatcher, former British prime minister.
noun
1
Any of several kinds of bird in the family Corvidae, especially Pica pica.
2
A superficially similar Australian bird, Gymnorhina tibicen or Cracticus tibicen.
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Maggie. Never in her life had she heard her mother called Maggie. It was a name from her youth, that dead time Jerene had never been allowed to talk about [- - -]. Her mother was Margaret now.
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I could tell that some of the guests were confused by the name of Maggie―no-one had called her by that clunky, unfashionable name in years―
Wiktionary03
Maggie said you can hold your own in darts.
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