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pie

Pronunciation: /paɪ/

The English word “pie” has 16 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. 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.)
  2. Any of various other, non-pastry dishes that maintain the general concept of a shell with a filling.
  3. A pizza.
  4. 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.
  5. The whole of a wealth or resource, to be divided in parts.
  6. An especially badly bowled ball.
  7. A pie chart.
  8. Something very easy; a piece of cake.
  9. The vulva.
  10. A kilogram of drugs, especially cocaine.
  11. Magpie.
  12. A former low-denomination coin of northern India.
  13. A traditional Spanish unit of length, equivalent to about 27.9 cm.

verb

  1. To hit in the face with a pie, either for comic effect or as a means of protest (see also pieing).
  2. To go around (a corner) in a guarded manner.
  3. To ignore (someone).

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…

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