Pie

Pronunciation

• US enPR: pÄ«, IPA: /paɪ/
• Homophones: pi, Ï€
• Rhymes: -aɪ

From Middle English, unknown origin.

Full definition of 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. (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) A disorderly mess of spilt type.
6. (cricket) An especially badly bowled ball.
7. (pejorative) a gluttonous person.
8. A pie chart.
• 1986, Carolyn Sorensen, ‎Henry J. Stock, Department of Education Computer Graphics Guide (page 8)Pies are best for comparing the components of only one or two totals.
9. (slang) The vulva.
• 1981, William Kotzwinkle, Jack in the Box"Yeah, take it off!" "SHOW US YOUR PIE!" The brunette opened the catch on her G-string and let the sequinned cloth slip down, teasing them with it.
• 2010, W. A. Moltinghorne, Magnolia Park (page 238)Yeah, some guys like to eat the old hairy pie. Women, too, or so I've heard.

Derived terms

Verb

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.

From Old French pie, from Latin pica, feminine of picus ("woodpecker").

Noun

1. (obsolete) Magpie.

Derived terms

• piebald

From Hindi पाई (pāī, "quarter"), from Sanskrit पादिका.

Noun

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, page 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