Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A pie with a filling of molasses and brown sugar.
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- noun A
fluffy pie made frommolasses , traditional among thePennsylvania Dutch .
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- noun open pie filled with a mixture of sweet crumbs and molasses
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[So called because one will supposedly have to shoo away the flies attracted to the sweet filling.]
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So-called because the molasses attracts flies, which must be shooed away.
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sionnach commented on the word shoofly pie
From infundibulum by way of funnel cake. See Free Association
February 5, 2008
yarb commented on the word shoofly pie
Shoofly? Don't bother me.
November 11, 2011