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pie (pī)

noun

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

Etymology: ME, akin ? to pie

pie Idioms

(as) easy as pie

Informal extremely easy
pie2 definition

pie (pī)

noun, transitive verb

Brit. pi

Etymology: < ? pie

pie3 definition

pie (pī)

noun

magpie

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

pie4 definition

pie (pī)

noun

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

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

PIE definition

PIE

Proto-Indo-European

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pie Synonyms

pie

n.

Varieties of pies include --- meat pies: chicken, turkey, lamb, pork, beef, steak-and-kidney, shepherd's, cottage, pot, fish, empanada (Spanish); dessert pies: apple, pumpkin, pecan, rhubarb, banana cream, chocolate cream, Boston cream, chiffon, apricot, peach, pear, raisin, custard, coconut cream, rice custard, caramel nut, chocolate, lemon meringue, key lime, orange, mince, mince meat, prune, cherry, gooseberry, huckleberry, blueberry, strawberry, raspberry, blackberry, black bottom, ice cream;

as easy as pie*

not difficult, simple, uncomplicated, a snap*; see easy 2.


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pie Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • mince: Last year's most offensive TV advert was for Mr Kipling mince pies, which showed a woman giving birth during a nativity play.

Adjective modifier

  • humble: I'm glad they are now eating humble pie " .

Modifies a noun

  • chart: I still fail to see how a pie chart or bar chart would give any useful results.

Noun used with modifier

  • pork: Yet in the world of pork pies, its name is a golden asset.

Possessives

  • shepherd: The origins of the meat in a shepherd's pie would be a conundrum too far.

Preposition: in

  • sky: Seems a bit pie in the sky to me.
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pie quotes

Their civilization is based on the most forthrightly materialistic value system in the history of mankind. If they see pie in the sky, they immediately start figuring out how to get it down onto the dinner table.

-Bonavia, David

You will eat, byand by, In that glorious land above the sky; Work and pray, live on hay, You'll get pie in the sky when you die.

-Hill,Joe originally Joel Ha«  gglund

Whatever isfunny issubversive, every joke isultimatelya custard pie† A dirty joke is not, of course, a serious attack uponmorality, but it is a sort of mental rebellion, a momentary wish that things were otherwise.

-Orwell, George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair

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