pie
Forms
- Plural
- pies
- present (v1)
- pie
- past (v2)
- pied
- past participle (v3)
- pied
- present participle
- pieing
- 3rd person singular
- pies
Definitions
1.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.
2.A pizza.
- We cut the pie in two.
3.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.)
- The family had steak and kidney pie for dinner and cherry pie for dessert.
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.
- We cut the pie in two.
1.To go around (a corner) in a guarded manner.
2.To ignore (someone).(slang)
3.Alternative form of pi (“to spill or mix printing type”).
- The door of the [printing] shop was shattered. He went in. The presses were broken. The type pied.
4.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.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #3310
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Word family
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.