PIE

Pie

A pie is a baked dish which is usually made of a pastry dough casing that covers or completely contains a filling of various sweet or savoury ingredients.

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pie

Noun

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Pizza.
  4. The whole of a wealth or resource, to be divided in parts.
  5. A disorderly mess of spilt type.
  6. An especially badly bowled ball.
  7. a gluttonous person.
  8. A pie chart.
  9. The vulva.

Noun (etymology 2)

  1. Magpie.

Noun (etymology 3)

  1. The smallest unit of currency in South Asia, equivalent to 1/192 of a rupee or 1/12 of an anna.

Verb

  1. 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.
  2. To go around (a corner) in a guarded manner.


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