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What a mag you are! jabberer, hence to chatter like a magpie. Mag is a contraction of magpie. The French have a famous word, “caquct-bon-bec.” We call a prating man or woman “a mag.” (See Magpie.)
Not a mag to bless myself with—not a halfpenny.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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