Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An almanac of services used in the English church before the Reformation.
- noun A baked food composed of a pastry shell filled with fruit, meat, cheese, or other ingredients, and usually covered with a pastry crust.
- noun A layer cake having cream, custard, or jelly filling.
- noun A whole that can be shared.
- idiom (pie in the sky) An empty wish or promise.
- noun A former unit of currency of India.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The smallest Anglo-Indian copper coin, equal to one third of a pice, or one twelfth of an anna —about one fourth of a United States cent.
- noun Formerly, a coin equal to one fourth of an anna.
- noun A Spanish and Spanish-American unit of length, the foot, equal to from 10.97 to 11.13 inches in Spain, and to 11.37 inches in Argentina.
- noun Same as
ordinal , 2 . - noun An index; a register; a list: as, a pie of sheriffs in the reign of Henry VIII
- noun A magpie.
- noun Hence Some similar or related bird; any pied bird: with a qualifying term: as, the smoky pie, Psilorhinus morio; the wandering pie of India, Temnurus (or Dendrocitta) vagabundus; the river-pie, or dipper, Cinclus aquaticus; the long-tailed pie, or titmouse, Acredula rosea; the murdering pie, or great gray shrike, Lanius excubitor; the sea-pie, or oyster-catcher; the Seoulton pewit or pie (see under pewit); etc.
- noun Figuratively, a prating gossip or tattler.
- noun A dish consisting of a thin layer of pastry filled with a preparation of meat, fish, fowl, fruit, or vegetables, seasoned, generally covered with a thicker layer of pastry, and baked: as, beefsteak pie; oyster pie; chicken pie; pumpkin pie; custard pie.
- noun Pies are sometimes made without the under thin layer of pastry. See pudding, tart, and turnover.
- noun A mound or pit for keeping potatoes.
- noun A compost-heap.
- See
pi . - noun In Italy, a measure of length, the foot, equal, at Lucca, to 11.94 inches.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A magpie.
- noun Any other species of the genus Pica, and of several allied genera.
- noun (R. C. Ch.) The service book.
- noun (Pritn.) Type confusedly mixed. See
Pi . - noun an adjuration equivalent to “by God and the service book.”
- noun (Zoöl.) any Asiatic bird of the genus Dendrocitta, allied to the magpie.
- noun (Zoöl.) See French pie, under
French . - noun An article of food consisting of paste baked with something in it or under it
- noun Prov. Eng. See
Camp , n., 5. - noun the paste of a pie.
- transitive verb See
pi .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun historical The smallest unit of currency in South Asia, equivalent to 1/192 of a
rupee or 1/12 of ananna . - noun obsolete
Magpie . - noun A type of
pastry that consists of an outer crust and afilling . - noun Extended to other, non-pastry dishes that maintain the general concept of a shell with a filling.
- noun Northeastern US
Pizza . - noun figuratively The
whole of a wealth orresource , to be divided in parts. - noun A disorderly mess of spilt
type . - noun cricket An especially badly
bowled ball. - noun pejorative a
gluttonous person. - noun slang
vulva - verb transitive To hit in the face with a pie, either for comic effect or as a means of protest (see also
pieing ). - verb transitive To go around (a corner) in a guarded manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun dish baked in pastry-lined pan often with a pastry top
- noun a prehistoric unrecorded language that was the ancestor of all Indo-European languages
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The only way to make sure both the poor and rich have enough, is not to quibble over how to divide the pie, but to * bake more pie*.
Latest Articles 2009
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"But I wouldn't take his word for a thing if I knew it was so; I went on a still-hunt around that tent on my own hook, and I found a pie -- a _whole pie_, by golly!
The Happy Family B. M. Bower 1905
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Pumpkin pie is my favorite and you put it in a handy form!
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My favorite pie is pumpkin pie w/caramel whipped cream on top! glarsh Nov 17
Apples & Leaves Pie Top Cutter and a Giveaway! | Baking Bites 2009
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Pumpkin pie is easy to make as homemade pies go, but there are plenty of pumpkin desserts that are even easier.
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Pumpkin pie is one of my favorite autumn treats and I make it often once the weather starts to get cool, but I also like to try and find new twists to put on it to keep it interesting.
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In one of his songs, "The Preacher and the Slave," Mr. Adler says, Hill coined the phrase "pie in the sky."
The Union Martyr Mark Lewis 2011
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Pumpkin pie is good on its own, but a little extra oomph can make an ordinary pie into something special.
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The pie is one that should have a very wide appeal, with the look and flavor of a snickerdoodle in pie form.
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Pumpkin pie is my absolute favorite! cecilia Nov 17 cherry pie! especially if it has a touch of kirsch in it. yum!
Apples & Leaves Pie Top Cutter and a Giveaway! | Baking Bites 2009
flptmbn commented on the word pie
this means foot in spanish
August 2, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word pie
Quite surprisingly, the Wikipedia article for pie is semi-protected.
March 15, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word pie
"Pie, at least for C. W. Gesner, was emblematic of all that was wrong with America's eating habits:
'We are fond of pies and tarts. We cry for pie when we are infants. Pie in countless varieties waits upon us through life. Pie kills us finally. We have apple-pie, peach-pie, rhubarb-pie, cherry-pie, pumpkin-pie, plum-pie, custard-pie, oyster-pie, lemon-pie, and hosts of other pies. Potatoes are diverted from their proper place as boiled or baked, and made into a nice heavy crust to these pies, rendering them as incapable of being acted upon by the gastric juice as if they were sulphate of baryta, a chemical which boiling vitriol will hardly dissolve. ... How can a person with a pound of green apples and fat dough in his stomach feel at ease?'"
—Susan Williams, Savory Suppers and Fashionable Feasts: Dining in Victorian America (New York: Pantheon Books, 1985), 172
May 3, 2010
reesetee commented on the word pie
What is wrong with that man??
*nibbles on pie crust*
May 4, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word pie
Shockingly, I think it was a woman. But no way to tell.
May 4, 2010
boyd commented on the word pie
Anyone got an idea about the origin of "pie"?
July 2, 2010