Maggie

See also: maggie

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmæɡi/
• Rhymes: -æɡi

Proper noun

Maggie

1. A diminutive of the female given name Margaret.
   • 1986, David Leavitt, The Lost Language of Cranes, Houghton Mifflin, published 1997, →ISBN, page 127:

     Maggie. Never in her life had she heard her mother called Maggie. It was a name from her youth, that dead time Jerene had never been allowed to talk about [- - -]. Her mother was Margaret now.

   • 2004, Joanne Harris, Jigs & Reels, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 81:

     I could tell that some of the guests were confused by the name of Maggie―no-one had called her by that clunky, unfashionable name in years―

2. (informal) Margaret Thatcher, former British prime minister.

Translations

female given name

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 瑪吉／玛吉 (Mǎjí)

• Danish: Grete, Grethe, Merete, Meta, Mette
• Dutch: Greet f, Greetje (nl) n, Griet f
• Finnish: Reeta (fi), Reetta (fi)
• French: Maguy (fr), Margot (fr) f
• Galician: Margarida (gl) f, Marga f
• German: Gretel (de) n or f, Greta f, Gretchen (de) n, Grete (de) f, Meta (de) f
• Hungarian: Gitta (hu), Gréta (hu)
• Icelandic: Gréta (is) f
• Italian: Rita (it) f, Greta f
• Japanese: マギー (Magī)
• Korean: 매기 (Maegi)
• Limburgish: Greet (li)
• Lithuanian: Greta f
• Norwegian: Grete (no) f, Grethe (no) f, Meta f, Mette (no) f
• Polish: Gosia (pl) f, Małgosia (pl) f, Marzena (pl) f
• Spanish: Rita (es) f
• Swedish: Greta (sv), Märta (sv), Meta (sv)
• Welsh: Mared f