pie

See also Appendix:Variations of "pie"

English

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Unsliced Lemon Meringue Pie - Noun, definition 1

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /pʌɪ/
• (US) enPR: pī, IPA: /paɪ/, SAMPA: /paI/

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• Homophones: pi, π
• Rhymes: -aɪ

Etymology 1

From Middle English, unknown origin.

Noun

pie (countable and uncountable; plural pies)

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. Extended to 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. (Northeastern US) Pizza.
4. (figuratively) The whole of a wealth or resource, to be divided in parts.
   • It is easier to get along when everyone, more or less, is getting ahead. But when the pie is shrinking, social groups are more likely to turn on each other. — Evan Thomas, Why It’s Time to Worry, Newsweek 2010-12-04
5. (letterpress typography) A disorderly mess of spilt type.
6. (cricket) An especially badly bowled ball.
7. (pejorative) a gluttonous person.

Derived terms

Terms derived from pie

apple pie chicken pie cottage pie cutie pie cream pie easy as pie have one's fingers in many pies meat pie mince pie

mud pie pie chart pie-eater pie-eyed pie-faced pie floater piehole pie in the sky

pieing party pie piemaker piet pork pie pot pie shepherd's pie sweet as pie who ate all the pies

Translations

type of pastry

Afrikaans: pastei (af) Albanian: byrek (sq) Arabic: فطيرة (ar) (faTiira) f. Belarusian: пірог (be) (piróh) m. Catalan: pastís (ca) m. Chinese: Mandarin: 餡餅 (cmn), 馅饼 (cmn) (xiànbǐng), 排 (cmn) (pái), 派 (cmn) (pài) Cornish: hogen (kw), (dialectal) hoggan (kw) Czech: koláč (cs) m. Danish: tærte (da) c. Dutch: taart (nl) f., pastei (nl) f. Finnish: torttu (fi), piirakka (fi), piiras (fi) French: tarte (fr) f. German: Torte (de) f. Greek: πίτα (el) (píta) f. Hebrew: פאי (he) (pái) m., תמליא (he) (tamlí) m. (the academy-sanctioned word, but not often used) Hindi: पाई (hi) (saī) Hungarian: pite (hu) Icelandic: baka (is) f. Ido: torto (io)

Indonesian: kue pai (id) Irish: pióg (ga) f. Italian: torta (it) f., crostata (it) f. Japanese: パイ (ja) (pai) Korean: 파이 (ko) (pai) Latin: crustum Macedonian: пита (mk) (píta) f., комад (mk) (kómad) m. Maltese: torta (mt) f. Norwegian: pai (no) m. Persian: پای (fa) (pây) Polish: ciasto (pl) n. Portuguese: torta (pt) f. Romanian: plăcintă (ro) f. Russian: пирог (ru) (piróg) m., (small, Russian style) пирожок (ru) (pirožók) m. Slovene: pita (sl) f. Spanish: pastel (es) m. Swedish: paj (sv) c. Taos: pòstaléna Thai: พาย (th) Ukrainian: пиріг (uk) (pyríh) m. West Frisian: taart (fy) c.

other, nonpastry dishes that maintain the general concept of a shell with a filling

Dutch: taart (nl) f., pastei (nl) f. Finnish: torttu (fi), piirakka (fi), piiras (fi) French: tourte (fr) f. Greek: πίτα (el) (píta) f.

Irish: pióg (ga) f. Italian: pasticcio (it) m. Swedish: paj (sv) c.

pizza

Japanese: ピザパイ (ja) (pizapai)

Maltese: ftajra (mt)

The whole of a wealth or resource

French: gâteau (fr) m. (lit., "cake")

printing: disorderly mess of spilt type

Italian: pasticcio (it) m., confusione (it) f.

cricket: especially badly bowled ball

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Translations to be checked

Afrikaans: tert Esperanto: torto (eo)

Portuguese: torta (pt) f. Romanian: plăcintă f. Spanish: empanada (es) f.

See also

• pastie
• pasty

Verb

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

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

Translations

to hit in the face with a pie

Finnish: kakuttaa (fi) French: entarter (fr)

Swedish: tårta (sv)

to go around (a corner) in a guarded manner

Etymology 2

From Old French pie, from Latin pica, feminine of picus (“woodpecker”)

Noun

pie (plural pies)

1. (obsolete) magpie

Etymology 3

From Hindi  (pāī, “quarter”), from Sanskrit पादिका (pādikā).

Noun

pie (plural pie or pies)

1. (historical) The smallest unit of currency in South Asia, equivalent to 1/192 of a Rupee or 1/12 of an anna.
   • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes’, The Phantom ’Rickshaw and Other Tales, Folio Society 2005, p. 117:

     I gave him all the money in my possession, Rs.9.8.5. – nine rupees, eight annas, and five pie – for I always keep small change as bakshish when I am in camp.

Anagrams

• EIP, ipe, ipé, PEI

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Esperanto

Adverb

pie

1. Piously.
   • 1922, Ivan H. Krestanoff (tr.), “En la tombejo”, in Nuntempaj Rakontoj^[1], Leipzig: Ferdinand Hirt & Sohn, translation of original by G. P. Stamatov, page 15:

     Nadja pie stariĝis apud la kruco.

     Nadia piously stood next to the cross.

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French

Pronunciation

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• IPA: /pi/, SAMPA: /pi/

Etymology

From Latin pica.

Noun

pie f. (plural pies)

1. Magpie.

Anagrams

• épi, I.-P.-E., IPE, ipé

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Italian

Adjective

pie f.

1. Feminine plural form of pio

Anagrams

• pei

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Latin

Adjective

pie

1. vocative masculine singular of pius

Adverb

pius (comparative magis pius, superlative piisimus)

1. piously, devoutly
2. dutifully, loyally

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Latvian

Preposition

pie

1. At.

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Mandarin

Romanization

pie

1. Nonstandard spelling of piē.
2. Nonstandard spelling of piě.
3. Nonstandard spelling of piè.

Usage notes

English transcriptions of Chinese speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Chinese language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin pes, pedis. Compare Catalan peu, Esperanto piedo, French pied, Ido pedo, Interlingua pede, Italian piede, Latin pes, Latvian pēda, Lithuanian pėdės, Portuguese pé, Sardinian pei

Pronunciation

• IPA: /pje/

Noun

pie m. (plural pies)

1. foot.

Synonyms

• pata

Derived terms

Derived terms

a sus pies a pie al pie del cañón al pie de la letra a pies juntillas buscarle tres pies al gato con buen pie/con el pie derecho con mal pie/con el pie izquierdo con los pies por delante de los pies a la cabeza dar pie en pie de guerra en pie de igualdad hacer pie nacer de pie

no dar pie con bola parar los pies pie de página pie de foto pie cavo pie de atleta pie de imprenta pie plano pie quebrado poner los pies en un lugar poner los pies en polvorosa por pies saber de qué pie cojea alguien sacar los pies del plato sin pies ni cabeza

Verb

pie (infinitive piar)

1. First-person singular (yo) preterite indicative form of piar.