pieman
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]- From Middle English pyman (attested as a surname), equivalent to pie + -man.
- (caller in gambling games): Such games were once often run by sellers of pies as a sideline.
Noun
[edit]pieman (plural piemen)
- A man who sells pies.
- (UK, slang, obsolete) The man who called heads or tails in street gambling games of coin tossing.
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary