Pie definition
A layer cake having cream, custard, or jelly filling.
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A former unit of currency of India.
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A baked food composed of a pastry shell filled with fruit, meat, cheese, or other ingredients, and usually covered with a pastry crust.
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A whole that can be shared.
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An almanac of services used in the English church before the Reformation.
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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.
An example of pie is quiche.
An example of pie is lemon meringue.
An example of pie is Boston cream pie.
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Proto-Indo-European.
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A baked dish made with fruit, meat, etc., and having either an under crust, an upper crust, or both.
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Something extremely good or easy.
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Political graft.
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A total amount to be divided in shares.
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In England, a form or table of rules used before the Reformation in selecting the correct church service or office for the day.
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A layer cake with a filling of custard, cream, jelly, etc.
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Proto-Indo-European.
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Any of various other, non-pastry dishes that maintain the general concept of a shell with a filling.
Shepherd's pie is made of mince covered with mashed potato.
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(cricket) An especially badly bowled ball.
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To hit in the face with a pie, either for comic effect or as a means of protest (see also pieing).
I'd like to see someone pie the chairman of the board.
verb
To go around (a corner) in a guarded manner.
verb
pie in the sky
- An empty wish or promise:
idiom
(as) easy as pie
- extremely easy
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Idioms and Phrasal Verbs
(as) easy as pie
Origin of pie
- Hindi pā'ī from Sanskrit pādikā quarter from pāt pad- foot, leg ped- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- Medieval Latin pīca
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- Middle English
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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- From Middle English, unknown origin.
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