A diminutive of the female given name Margaret.
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maggie
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for maggie.
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Quick take
A diminutive of the female given name Margaret.
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Any of several kinds of bird in the family Corvidae, especially Pica pica.
A superficially similar Australian bird, Gymnorhina tibicen or Cracticus tibicen.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for maggie.
noun
A diminutive of the female given name Margaret.
noun
Any of several kinds of bird in the family Corvidae, especially Pica pica.
noun
A superficially similar Australian bird, Gymnorhina tibicen or Cracticus tibicen.
noun
(informal) Margaret Thatcher, former British prime minister.
Example sentences
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We had this 'Trickle Down Effect' with Maggie Thatcher in the UK - it does not work!
In other words, just read the New York Times (or BoingBoing, since it's Maggie Koerth-Baker) and ignore everything else.
Edit: I also have a female friend who I'd always known as Maggie Smith-Brown[1] and I always just assumed that she started as Maggie Smith and married Mr.
It appears to work in Firefox but not Chrome and comprise interviews with Tim Berners Lee, Ranulph Fiennes, Alice Roberts and Maggie Aderin-Pocock.
He starts his article with a line from Maggie Thatcher on socialism.
We became pretty good friends with Maggie the bomb sniffing dog.
It's also possible that she started as Maggie Smith, married Mr.
> He starts his article with a line from Maggie Thatcher on socialism.
So, bearing in mind the above, I'd say that overall Maggie was a pretty awful leader but she inspired a lot of good (but depressing) 80's music.
Contact: maggie@missmaggiemo.com I'm a web developer looking to join a smallish team where I can learn and grow, as well as have a material impact on a product.
When going to the mountains or beaches, there are the options of exploring something more commercialized (Boone, Wrightsville Beach) or more rural (Cape Hatteras National Seashore, Maggie Valley, etc).
Quote examples
This started when Maggie Thatcher and Rupert Murdoch were BFF, and continued pretty much until Cameron's campaign to "tone down" the nastiness.
Maggie Lange at Gawker puts it: " Mayer famously took her position at Yahoo while six months pregnant and had her baby last fall.
As Maggie Thatcher once responded to an accuser, "you would prefer that the poor be poorer, in order that the rich would be less rich".
The recent death of Maggie reminded me of what she really changed - she made it ok to be selfish and disdainful of "undeserving" poor.
Proper noun examples
Maggie Thatcher was not a fan of such reasoning, hence the change;-) But, well, locations and families vary.
We noticed that things were not going well for our daughter, Maggie, too.
Maggie Thatcher was the one that pushed for the Sunday trading laws to be changed, thereafter we became a nation of shoppers (rather than shopkeepers, which was how we described Britain before then).
Frequently asked questions
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How do you use maggie in a sentence?
Add Judi Dench, Renee Zellweger, Cate Blanchett, Helen Mirren, Maggie Smith, the list is quite big...
What does maggie mean?
A diminutive of the female given name Margaret.
What part of speech is maggie?
maggie is commonly used as noun.