pie
see also: PIE
Pronunciation Noun
PIE
Pronunciation Proper noun
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see also: PIE
Pronunciation Noun
pie
- A type of pastry that consists of an outer crust and a filling.
- The family had steak and kidney pie for dinner and cherry pie for dessert.
- 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.
- (Northeastern US) A pizza.
- (figuratively) The whole of a wealth or resource, to be divided in parts.
- (letterpress) A disorderly mess of spilt type.
- (cricket) An especially badly bowled ball.
- A pie chart.
- (slang) The vulva.
- French: tarte
- German: Torte
- Italian: torta, crostata
- Portuguese: torta
- Russian: пиро́г
- Spanish: pastel, pay, tarta
- French: gâteau
- Italian: pasticcio, confusione
pie (pies, present participle pieing; past and past participle pied)
- (transitive) 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.
- (transitive) To go around (a corner) in a guarded manner.
- (transitive) (of printing types) To reduce to confusion; to jumble.
pie (plural pies)
(obsolete) Magpie.
pie (plural pie)
- (historical) The smallest unit of currency in South Asia, equivalent to frac 1 of a rupee or frac 1 of an anna.
PIE
Pronunciation Proper noun
- Initialism of Proto-Indo-European
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