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pie
1[ pahy ]
noun
- a baked food having a filling of fruit, meat, pudding, etc., prepared in a pastry-lined pan or dish and often topped with a pastry crust:
apple pie; meat pie.
- a layer cake with a filling of custard, cream jelly, or the like:
chocolate cream pie.
- a total or whole that can be divided:
They want a bigger part of the profit pie.
- an activity or affair:
He has his finger in the political pie too.
pie
2[ pahy ]
noun
pie
3[ pahy ]
noun
- a spelling variant of pi 2.
pie
4[ pahy ]
noun
- (in England before the Reformation) a book of ecclesiastical rules for finding the particulars of the service for the day.
pie
5[ pahy ]
noun
- a former bronze coin of India, the 12th part of an anna.
PIE
6abbreviation for
pie
1/ 貹ɪ /
noun
- a baked food consisting of a sweet or savoury filling in a pastry-lined dish, often covered with a pastry crust
- have a finger in the pie
- to have an interest in or take part in some activity
- to meddle or interfere
- pie in the skyillusory hope or promise of some future good; false optimism
pie
2/ 貹ɪ /
noun
- an archaic or dialect name for magpie
pie
3/ 貹ɪ /
noun
- printing a variant spelling of pi 2
pie
4/ 貹ɪ /
noun
- a very small former Indian coin worth one third of a pice
pie
5/ 貹ɪ /
noun
- history a book for finding the Church service for any particular day
pie
6/ 貹ɪ /
adjective
- be pie on informal.to be keen on
Other Word Forms
- 辱l adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of pie1
Origin of pie2
Origin of pie3
Origin of pie4
Word History and Origins
Origin of pie1
Origin of pie2
Origin of pie3
Origin of pie4
Origin of pie5
Idioms and Phrases
- easy as pie, extremely easy or simple.
- nice as pie, extremely well-behaved, agreeable, or the like:
The children were nice as pie.
- pie in the sky,
- the illusory prospect of future benefits:
Political promises are often pie in the sky.
- a state of perfect happiness; utopia:
to promise pie in the sky.
More idioms and phrases containing pie
In addition to the idiom beginning with pie , also see apple-pie order ; easy as pie ; eat crow (humble pie) ; finger in the pie ; slice of the pie .Example Sentences
College sports is a wonderful activity that has finally ponied up to give its long-ignored participants a piece of the pie.
Not to mention Trump’s efforts to destroy lots of “mom and apple pie” things like the Department of Education, the Post Office, Social Security, Medicaid, the Centers for Disease Control, and the Constitution.
It brings an earthy heft that you can’t get from flour alone, like the bite of a cornmeal-crusted pie or the dense texture of a polenta cake.
“I filled in those holes through volunteering, through being an actor, through golf, bridge,” he said over a lunch of meatloaf and custard pie.
Wealthy Americans, on the other hand, would have a larger share of the economic pie.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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