apple pie

See also: apple-pie

English[edit]

apple pie (countable and uncountable, plural apple pies)

A pie or tart made with a filling of cooked apples.
(figuratively) Anything positive that is quintessentially American.
- 2021 February 9, Christina Newland, “Is Tom Hanks part of a dying breed of genuine movie stars?”, in BBC‎^[1]:
  Hanks has often been called our generation's answer to James Stewart, and the similarities are certainly there. With his shared "gee shucks" sweetness and apple pie Americanness, Stewart also appeared in many war films and family dramas.
- 2021 April 8, Margaret Atwood, “‘It has never been more pertinent’ – Margaret Atwood on the chilling genius of Laurie Anderson’s Big Science”, in The Guardian‎^[2], →ISSN:
  She was a refugee, not to America but from within America: a Mom and apple pie America, an America of the past that was being rapidly transformed by material inventions, and by the freeways, malls, and drive-in banks cited in the song Big Science as landmarks on the road to town.
(dialectal, UK) Any of various willowherbs.

Derived terms

pie with apple filling

Arabic: فطيرَة التفاح f
Bulgarian: я́бълков пай m (jábǎlkov paj)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 蘋果批／苹果批 (ping⁴ gwo² pai¹)

Mandarin: 蘋果派／苹果派 (zh) (píngguǒpài)
Danish: æblekage (da) c, æbletærte (da) c
Dutch: appeltaart (nl) m
Esperanto: pomokuko, pomotorto
Finnish: omenapiirakka (fi), omenapiiras
French: tarte aux pommes f
German: Apfelkuchen (de) m
Hebrew: פאי תפוחים
Hungarian: almás lepény (hu)
Icelandic: eplabaka f
Irish: pióg úll f
Italian: torta di mele f
Japanese: アップルパイ (appurupai)
Korean: 애플파이 (aepeulpai)
Low German:
German Low German: Appelkoken m
Malay: pai epal
Maltese: torta tat-tuffieħ f
Mongolian: алимтай бялуу (alimtaj bjaluu), алимны бялуу (alimny bjaluu)
Norman: pâté d'pommes m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: eplepai m

Nynorsk: eplepai m
Persian: پای سیب (pây-e sib)
Polish: szarlotka (pl) f, jabłecznik (pl) m, ciasto z jabłkami n
Portuguese: torta de maçã f
Russian: я́блочный пиро́г m (jábločnyj piróg)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: пи̏та о̏д ја̏бӯка̄ f

Roman: pȉta ȍd jȁbūkā f
Spanish: tarta de manzana f
Swedish: äppelpaj (sv) c
Turkish: elmalı turta
Vilamovian: epułkücha
Yiddish: עפּלפּײַ (eplpay)

anything quintessentially American

Chinese:
Mandarin: 典型美國式的／典型美国式的 (diǎnxíng Měiguó shì de) (used as an attributive phrase)
Danish: ærkeamerikansk
Finnish: periamerikkalainen asia
Portuguese: americanice f, americanismo (pt) m
Russian: please add this translation if you can

apple pie (third-person singular simple present apple pies, present participle apple pieing, simple past and past participle apple pied)