a tiding of magpies
- Subject
- magpie (magpies)
- Category
- Animals → Birds
- Confidence
- high
- Attestation
- historical-source
- Also spelled
- Tygendis (1486)
Collective noun
tiding
Also spelled Tygendis (1486)
What do you call a group of magpies?
a tiding of magpies
- Used for
- 1 subject
- Categories
- Animals
- Subcategories
- Birds
- Type
- Specific
- Best confidence
- high
Definition
- Listed in the Book of Saint Albans (1486) as “a Tygendis of pyes”.
Other senses of the word: tiding on Wiktionary