pie

See also Appendix:Variations of "pie"

English

Wikipedia

Unsliced Lemon Meringue Pie - Noun, definition 1

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (US)

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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.
8. (slang) 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

Terms derived from pie

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

mince pie mud pie party pie pie chart pie floater pie in the sky pie-eater pie-eyed pie-faced

piehole pieing 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
• Aromanian: plãtsintã (rup) 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: piirakka (fi), piiras (fi), torttu (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, pióg (ga)
• Italian: torta (it) f, crostata (it) f
• Japanese: パイ (ja) (pai)
• Korean: 파이 (ko) (pai)
• Latin: crustum (la)
• 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
• Scottish Gaelic: paidh (gd)
• Slovene: pita (sl) f
• Spanish: pastel (es) m
• Swedish: paj (sv) c
• Taos: pòstaléna
• Thai: พาย (th)
• Ukrainian: пиріг (uk) (pyríh) m
• Welsh: pastai (cy)
• West Frisian: taart (fy) c

nonpastry dish resembling a pie

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

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

pizza — see pizza

whole of wealth or resource

• Finnish: kakku (fi)

• French: gâteau (fr) m (lit., "cake")

printing: disorderly mess of spilt type

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

cricket: especially badly bowled ball

pejorative: gluttonous person

• Finnish: rohmu (fi)

slang: vulva

• Finnish: ripsipiirakka (fi), pipari (fi)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Help:How to check translations.

Translations to be checked

• Afrikaans: tert (af)
• Esperanto: torto (eo)

• Portuguese: torta (pt) f
• Romanian: plăcintă (ro) 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.

Derived terms

• piebald

Etymology 3

From Hindi पाई (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/, X-SAMPA: /pi/

Etymology

From Latin pica.

Noun

pie f (plural pies)

1. magpie

Derived terms

• fromage à la pie

Anagrams

• épi, I.-P.-E., IPE, ipé

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Italian

Adjective

pie f pl

1. feminine plural form of pio

Anagrams

• pei

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Jèrriais

Etymology

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

Noun

pie f (plural pies)

1. female magpie

Synonyms

• mèrgot

Coordinate terms

• (sex): piêté

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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 (with genitive)

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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Old French

Noun

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

1. magpie

Descendants

• English: pie (borrowed)
• French: pie
• Jèrriais: pie

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin pes, pedis, from Proto-Indo-European *pṓds. 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.