pie
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
pie1
▶noun a baked dish of savoury or sweet ingredients encased in or topped with pastry.
– phrases
(as) —— as pie informal very ——.
pie in the sky informal something pleasant to contemplate but very unlikely to be realized.
(as) —— as pie informal very ——.
pie in the sky informal something pleasant to contemplate but very unlikely to be realized.
– origin ME: prob. the same word as pie2, the various combinations of ingredients being compared to objects randomly collected by a magpie.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
pie2
▶noun used in names of birds resembling a magpie, e.g. tree pie.
– origin ME: from OFr., from L. pica ‘magpie’.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
pie3
▶noun a former monetary unit of the Indian subcontinent, equal to one twelfth of an anna.
– origin from Hindi pā'ī, from Sanskrit pada, padī ‘quarter’.
'pie' also found in these Oxford entries:
apple-pie bed
- apple-pie order
- banoffi pie
- bridie
- cherry pie
- cobbler
- cottage pie
- coulibiac
- crust
- custard
- custard pie
- deep-dish
- finger
- frisbee
- half-pie
- humble
- jim-jams
- lid
- magpie
- mince pie
- open-faced
- pâté
- patty
- pedestal
- piebald
- pie chart
- pied
- pie-eyed
- pie-faced
- pirog
- pitta
- pizza
- pork pie
- pork-pie hat
- porky
- shepherd's pie
- shoo-fly pie
- spanakopita
- squab pie
- sweetie
- tourtière
- tree pie
- turnover
- vamp
