haggister

English

Alternative forms

  • hagester, hagister, eggiste

Etymology

From Middle English *haguster, aguster, from Old English *agustre, from Proto-West Germanic *agustrā, *agistrā, variant of *agastrijā (“magpie, woodpecker”); related to West Frisian ekster (“magpie”), Dutch ekster (“magpie”), German Low German Heister, Häster (“magpie”), Swabian Ägerst (“magpie”). Compare also German Elster (“magpie”).

Noun

haggister (plural haggisters)

  1. (UK, dialect, rare) A magpie.
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