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Steve vs Maggie - What's the difference?

steve | maggie |

As proper nouns the difference between steve and maggie

is that steve is a diminutive of Steven and Stephen, also used as a formal male given name while Maggie is {{given name|female|diminutive=Margaret}}.

As a verb steve

is to pack or stow, as cargo in a ship's hold.

As a noun maggie is

one of several kinds of bird in the family Corvidae, especially Pica pica.

steve

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • A diminutive of Steven and Stephen, also used as a formal male given name.
  • .

    • Quotations

    * 1989 Ann Beattie: Picturing Will , Random House, ISBN 0394569873, page 67: *: His first name was probably Steve' or Ed. No, there were no more ' Steves or Eds in New York. They were now Steven or Edward, whether they were gay or straight. If they had money, they didn't have a nickname. Everybody was into high seriousness, so that now even dogs were named Humphrey and Raphael. * 1956 : Peyton Place , UPNE, 1999, ISBN 1555534007, Book Three,Chapter 13, *: Allison made a careful note of the address and within the hour she had met, decided she liked, and moved in with a girl of twenty who called herself Steve Wallace. *: "Don't call me Stephanie", Steve had said. "I don't know why it should, but being called Stephanie always makes me feel like something pale and dull out of Jane Austen." English diminutives of male given names

    maggie

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • .
  • * 1986 , The Lost Language of Cranes , Houghton Mifflin (1997), ISBN 0395877334, 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 , Jigs & Reels , Doubleday, ISBN 0385606427, 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?
  • , former British prime minister