pie
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
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hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From Middle English pye, pie, pey (“baked dish, filled pastry”), possibly attested earlier (c. 1199) in the surname Piehus (“pie-house?”). Further origin uncertain.
Relation to Middle English pie, pye (“magpie”) has been suggested due to correspondences between other similar foods and the names of birds (compare haggis (“Scottish dish”) and haggess (“magpie”); and chewet (“meat pie”) and chewet (“chough, jackdaw”); however, the baked dish may instead be named after a creator with the surname Pie, a common name at the time.
The surname is ultimately derived from the bird above, and thus from Old French pie, from Latin pīca (“magpie”). If true, then doublet of speight.
Inflected forms:
form: pies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pieing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pied
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A type of pastry that consists of an outer crust and a filling. (Savory pies are more popular in the UK and sweet pies are more popular in the US, so "pie" without qualification has different connotations in these dialects.)
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The family had steak and kidney pie for dinner and cherry pie for dessert.
SATURNINUS: Go fetch them hither to us presently.
TITUS: Why, there they are, both baked in that pie,
Whereof their mother daintily hath fed,
Eating the flesh that she herself hath bred.
gloss: Any of various other, non-pastry dishes that maintain the general concept of a shell with a filling.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Shepherd's pie is made of mince covered with mashed potato.
gloss: A pizza.
pos: noun
tags: Northeastern
US
countable
uncountable
gloss: A paper plate covered in cream, shaving foam or custard that is thrown or rubbed in someone’s face for comical purposes, to raise money for charity, or as a form of political protest; a custard pie; a cream pie.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The whole of a wealth or resource, to be divided in parts.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: It is easier to get along when everyone, more or less, is getting ahead. But when the pie is shrinking, social groups are more likely to turn on each other.
gloss: An especially badly bowled ball.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A pie chart.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Pies are best for comparing the components of only one or two totals.
gloss: Something very easy; a piece of cake.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
uncountable
examples: Programmers haven't exactly been wild about certain Microsoft policies — such as the price of the OS/2 developer's kit or the fib about how Microsoft Windows code would be pie to translate to the Presentation Manager.
gloss: The vulva.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
examples: "Yeah, take it off!" "SHOW US YOUR PIE!" The brunette opened the catch on her G-string and let the sequinned cloth slip down, teasing them with it.
Yeah, some guys like to eat the old hairy pie. Women, too, or so I've heard.
gloss: A kilogram of drugs, especially cocaine.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
examples: Did fed time outta town pie flipper / Turn Cristal into a crooked-I sipper
My weed smoke is my lye, a ki of coke is a pie / When I'm lifted I'm high, with new clothes on I'm fly
I love the cutie pies, never the zootie pies
gloss: To hit in the face with a pie, either for comic effect or as a means of protest (see also pieing).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I'd like to see someone pie the chairman of the board.
gloss: To go around (a corner) in a guarded manner.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To ignore (someone).
pos: verb
tags: UK
often
slang
transitive
examples: Some of my friends drop everyone out as soon as they get a girlfriend, and they alienate people. Or they stop going out to the gym and doing things they love because they're all about the other person. When you do that you're sacrificing yourself and you will be left with nothing if you split up. You'll have to start again and get back in contact with all your mates you've pied off. Shame.
just my luck been put in a presentation group at uni with a guy I pied on tinder last week HAHA gud
Related words: pastie
pasty
Derived words: aloo pie
American as apple pie
American pie
angel pie
apple pie
apple-pie
apple-pie bed
apple-pie order
Australian as a meat pie
banoffee pie
battalia pie
bean pie
black bottom pie
black-bottom pie
blueberry pie
Bob Andy pie
Boston cream pie
bran pie
buko pie
butter pie
by cock and pie
cap-à-pie
cap-a-pie
cherry pie
chess pie
chiffon pie
Chinese pie
choco pie
Christmas pie
Christmas Pie
Christmaspie
cottage pie
cow pie
cowpie
cream pie
Cumberland pie
custard pie
custard-pie
cutie pie
cutie-pie
Devizes pie
Devon pie
dirt pie
easy as pie
eat humble pie
English as apple pie
Eskimo pie
fidget pie
finger in the pie
finger pie
fisherman's pie
flapper pie
fly pie
football pie
frankenpie
fried pie
Frito pie
fry pie
funeral pie
fur pie
gala pie
gamekeeper's pie
grasshopper pie
Grosvenor pie
hair pie
half-pie
hand pie
have one's fingers in many pies
homity pie
honeypie
Hoosier pie
horned pie
hot pie
humble pie
icebox pie
I like pie
impossible pie
Jack Horner pie
Karelian pie
Kate and Sidney pie
Kate and Sydney pie
Key lime pie
lamb pie
lemon meringue pie
like flies on pie
lumber pie
macaroni pie
maggoty-pie
meat pie
mincemeat pie
mince pie
Mississippi mud pie
mom and apple pie
Montgomery pie
moon pie
motherhood and apple pie
mud pie
mud pie argument
nice as pie
pake
party pie
pecan pie
Périgord pie
picnic pie
pie-baking
pie baking
pie bed
pie bird
pieboy
piecake
piecaken
pie car
piecard
pie cart
piece of the pie
pie chart
pie chest
pie chimney
pie-chucker
pie crust
piedish
pie-dish beetle
pie-eater
pie-eyed
pieface
pie-faced
piefight
pie floater
pie fork
pie funnel
pie graph
pie-hole
piehole
pie hole
pie house
pieing
pie in the sky
pie-in-the-sky
pie iron
pieless
pielike
piemaker
piemaking
pieman
pie menu
pie off
pie pan
pieplant
pie plant
pie plate
pie rule
pie safe
pie server
pieshop
pie supper
piet
pie thrower
pie tin
pie vent
pie wagon
pie whistle
pie-wipe
piewoman
pigeon-pie
pigeon pie
pity pie
pizza pie
plum pie
poacher's pie
pork pie
pork pie hat
porky pie
possum pie
pot pie
pot-pie
potpie
pudding pie
pumpion pie
pumpkin pie
pumpkin pie spice
pyet
pyot
Pyrex
rappie pie
refrigerator pie
resurrection pie
Scotch pie
sea-pie
share of the pie
shepherdess pie
shepherdless pie
shepherds pie
shepherd's pie
shoo-fly pie
shoofly pie
shred pie
slice of the pie
slice the pie
snake and pygmy pie
Snickers pie
squab pie
stand pie
stargazey pie
stargazy pie
steak and kidney pie
Strasbourg pie
Strasburg pie
sugar cream pie
sugarpie
sugar pie
sweet as pie
sweetie pie
tadago-pie
tamale pie
tin roof pie
tomato pie
transparent pie
treepie
Twelfth Night pie
twelfth pie
umble pie
vinegar pie
Washington pie
water pie
white pie
who ate all the pies
whoopee pie
whoopie pie
Woolton pie
Yorkshire pie
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