pie

• (US, UK) enPR: pī, IPA^(key): /paɪ/

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• Homophones: pi, π
• Rhymes: -aɪ

From Middle English pye, pie, probably from Latin pīca (“magpie, jay”) (from the idea of the many ingredients put into pies likened to the tendency of magpies to bring a variety of objects back to their nests).

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. 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.
   • 2010 December 4, Evan Thomas, “Why It’s Time to Worry”, in Newsweek‎:

     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.

5. (letterpress typography) A disorderly mess of spilt type.
6. (cricket) An especially badly bowled ball.
7. (derogatory) 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.

• pastie
• pasty

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.
3. (transitive) (of printing types) To reduce to confusion; to jumble.
   • 1943, Esther Forbes Hoskins, Johnny Tremain:

     The door of the [printing] shop was shattered. He went in. The presses were broken. The type pied.

From Middle English pye, from Old French pie, from Latin pīca, feminine of pīcus (“woodpecker”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peyk- (“woodpecker; magpie”). Cognate with speight.

pie (plural pies)

1. (obsolete) Magpie.

• piebald

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

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”, in The Phantom ’Rickshaw and Other Tales, Folio Society, published 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.

• EIP, Epi, IEP, P.E.I., PEI, Pei, epi, epi-, ipe, ipé

From Latin pes, pedem.

pie m (plural pies)

1. foot

• peón

pie

1. piously
   • 1922, Ivan H. Krestanoff (tr.), “En la tombejo”, in Nuntempaj Rakontoj‎, 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.

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

• IPA^(key): /pi/

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pie f (plural pies)

1. magpie

• fromage à la pie

• “pie” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• épi, I.-P.-E., IPE, ipé

pie f pl

1. Feminine plural of adjective pio.

• pei

pie

1. vocative masculine singular of pius

piē (comparative pius, superlative pissimē)

1. piously, devoutly
2. dutifully, loyally

• pie in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pie in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pie in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to show an affectionate regard for a person's memory: memoriam alicuius pie inviolateque servare
    
  • (ambiguous) to be an earnest worshipper of the gods: deos sancte, pie venerari
    

pie (with genitive)

1. at

   es biju pie tēva ― I was at my father's

2. on

   māja pie jūras ― a house on the sea

3. to

   braukšu pie tevis ― I will go to your place

pie

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

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

From Medieval Latin pīca.

pie

1. Alternative form of pye (“pie”)

From Old French pie.

pie

1. Alternative form of pye (“magpie”)

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

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pie f (plural pies)

1. (Jersey) female magpie

• mèrgot

• (sex): piêté

From Latin pīca.

pie f (oblique plural pies, nominative singular pie, nominative plural pies)

1. magpie

• → English: pie
• French: pie
• Norman: pie (Jersey)

pie

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of piar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of piar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of piar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of piar

• IPA^(key): /pje/

From Latin pēs, from Proto-Indo-European *pṓds.

pie m (plural pies)

1. foot (of a person)

   Synonym: pata (of an animal)

2. (poetry) foot

• pié (obsolete)

See the etymology of the main entry.

pie

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

• píe

• “pie” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.