antics
Did you know that there's a bird baked in your "pie"? The original name for the bird we now call a "magpie" was simply "pie." These birds were inveterate collectors, and they filled their nests with bits of ribbon, string and paper.
So when housewives started tossing a variety of meats, vegetables and other foods into a stew and then enclosing it in a baked crust, this hodgepodge reminded people of a pie's nest, and they began calling it a "pie."
The prefix "mag-" (a nickname for "Margaret") was added to the bird's name around 1600, and we still call someone who collects things – or chatters indiscriminately – a "magpie."