pie

Pie is fruit, meat or cheese prepared with a pastry shell, usually baked with a pastry crust and round, or a layer of cake with a sweet filling.

(noun)

See pie in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

a baked dish made with fruit, meat, etc., and having either an under crust, an upper crust, or both
a layer cake with a filling of custard, cream, jelly, etc.
☆ Slang
1. something extremely good or easy
2. political graft
3. a total amount to be divided in shares

Origin: ME, akin ? to pie

noun, transitive verb

Brit. pi

Origin: < ? pie

noun

magpie

Origin: OFr < L pica, magpie, akin to picus, woodpecker < IE base *(s)piko-, woodpecker > Ger specht

noun

in England, a form or table of rules used before the Reformation in selecting the correct church service or office for the day

Origin: transl. of ML(Ec) pica, prob. < or akin to pie

Proto-Indo-European

See pie in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

A baked food composed of a pastry shell filled with fruit, meat, cheese, or other ingredients, and usually covered with a pastry crust.
A layer cake having cream, custard, or jelly filling.
A whole that can be shared: “That would . . . enlarge the economic pie by making the most productive use of every investment dollar” (New York Times).

Origin:

Origin: Middle English

noun

Origin:

Origin: Middle English

Origin: , from Old French

Origin: , from Latin pīca

noun

A monetary unit formerly in use in India and Pakistan.

Origin:

Origin: Hindi pā'ī