pie

CEFRA2

/paɪ/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    Food made with a pastry covering and a sweet or savory filling.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A pizza.

Examples

  • Have you ever eaten a banana pie?

  • You want to have a finger in every pie, don't you?

At a glance

Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
1

Also pronounced

  • /pɑɪ/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. Any of various other, non-pastry dishes that maintain the general concept of a shell with a filling.

  2. 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.)

  3. 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.

More examples

In context

  • I'd like to see someone pie the chairman of the board.

  • Shepherd's pie is made of mince covered with mashed potato.

  • The family had steak and kidney pie for dinner and cherry pie for dessert.

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

From Middle English pye, pie, pey (“baked dish, filled pastry”), possibly attested earlier (c. 1199) in the surname Piehus (“pie-house?”). Further origin uncertain. Relation to Middle English pie, pye (“magpie”) has been suggested due to correspondences between other similar foods and the names of birds (compare haggis (“Scottish dish”) and haggess (“magpie”); and chewet (“meat pie”) and chewet (“chough, jackdaw”); however, the baked dish may instead be named after a creator with the surname Pie, a common name at the time. The surname is ultimately derived from the bird above, and thus from Old French pie, from Latin pīca (“magpie”). If true, then doublet of speight.