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PIE
pie
(noun) dish baked in pastry-lined pan often with a pastry top
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Noun
pie (countable and uncountable, plural pies)
A type of pastry that consists of an outer crust and a filling.
Any of various other, non-pastry dishes that maintain the general concept of a shell with a filling.
(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.
Verb
pie (third-person singular simple present pies, present participle pieing, simple 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).
(transitive) To go around (a corner) in a guarded manner.
(transitive) (of printing types) To reduce to confusion; to jumble.
Etymology 2
Noun
pie (plural pies)
(obsolete) Magpie.
Etymology 3
Noun
pie (plural pie or pies)
(historical) The smallest unit of currency in South Asia, equivalent to 1/192 of a rupee or 1/12 of an anna.
Anagrams
• EIP, EPI, Epi, IEP, P.E.I., PEI, Pei, epi, epi-, ipe, ipĆ©
Proper noun
PIE
Initialism of Proto-Indo-European.
Anagrams
• EIP, EPI, Epi, IEP, P.E.I., PEI, Pei, epi, epi-, ipe, ipĆ©
Source: Wiktionary
Pie, n. Etym: [OE. pie, pye; cf. Ir. & Gael. pighe pie, also Gael. pige an earthen jar or pot. Cf. Piggin.]
1. An article of food consisting of paste baked with something in it or under it; as, chicken pie; venison pie; mince pie; apple pie; pumpkin pie.
2. See Camp, n., 5. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell. Pie crust, the paste of a pie.
Pie, n. Etym: [F. pie, L. pica; cf. picus woodpecker, pingere to paint; the bird being perhaps named from its colors. Cf. Pi, Paint, Speight.]
1. (Zoƶl.) (a) A magpie. (b) Any other species of the genus Pica, and of several allied genera. [Written also pye.]
2. (R. C. Ch.)
Definition: The service book.
3. (Pritn.)
Definition: Type confusedly mixed. See Pi. By cock and pie, an adjuration equivalent to "by God and the service book." Shak.
– Tree pie (Zoƶl.), any Asiatic bird of the genus Dendrocitta, allied to the magpie.
– Wood pie. (Zoƶl.) See French pie, under French.
Pie, v. t.
Definition: See Pi.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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