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See also: Appendix:Variations of "pie"

Translingual

Etymology

Clipping of English Piro with e as a placeholder.

Symbol

pie

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Piro.

See also

English

 pie (disambiguation) on Wikipedia

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle English pye, pie, pey (“baked dish, filled pastry”), possibly attested earlier (c. 1199) in the surname Piehus (“pie-house?”). Further origin uncertain.

Relation to Middle English pie, pye (“magpie”) has been suggested due to correspondences between other similar foods and the names of birds (compare haggis (“Scottish dish”) and haggess (“magpie”); and chewet (“meat pie”) and chewet (“chough, jackdaw”); however, the baked dish may instead be named after a creator with the surname Pie, a common name at the time.

The surname is ultimately derived from the bird above, and thus from Old French pie, from Latin pīca (“magpie”). If true, then doublet of speight.

Noun

pie (countable and uncountable, plural pies)

  1. A type of pastry that consists of an outer crust and a filling. (Savory pies are more popular in the UK and sweet pies are more popular in the US, so "pie" without qualification has different connotations in these dialects.)
    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) A pizza.
  4. A paper plate covered in cream, shaving foam or custard that is thrown or rubbed in someone’s face for comical purposes, to raise money for charity, or as a form of political protest; a custard pie; a cream pie.
  5. (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.
  6. (cricket) An especially badly bowled ball.
  7. 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.
  8. (informal) Something very easy; a piece of cake.
    • 1989, PC Mag, volume 8, number 5, page 91:
      Programmers haven't exactly been wild about certain Microsoft policies — such as the price of the OS/2 developer's kit or the fib about how Microsoft Windows code would be pie to translate to the Presentation Manager.
  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.
  10. (slang) A kilogram of drugs, especially cocaine.
    • 1997 January 3, “Can't Nobody Hold Me Down”‎performed by Sean Combs ft. Mase:
      Did fed time outta town pie flipper / Turn Cristal into a crooked-I sipper
    • [1998 October 18, “Ebonics”‎performed by Big L:
      My weed smoke is my lye, a ki of coke is a pie / When I'm lifted I'm high, with new clothes on I'm fly]
    • 1999 July 13, “Discipline”‎performed by Gang Starr ft. Total:
      I love the cutie pies, never the zootie pies
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → Bulgarian: пай (paj)
  • → Cantonese: 批 (pai1)
  • → Finnish: pai
  • → Hebrew: פַּאי
  • → Japanese: パイ
  • → Kashubian: paja (Canada, United States)
  • → Korean: 파이 (pai)
  • → Malay: pai
  • → Persian: پای (pây)
  • → Scottish Gaelic: pàidh
  • → Spanish: pay
  • → Swedish: paj
  • → Tok Pisin: pai
  • → Welsh: pei
  • → Yiddish: פּײַ (pay)
Translations
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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.
  4. (transitive, UK, slang, often followed by off) To ignore (someone).
    • 2017, Marcel Somerville, Dr Marcel's Little Book of Big Love: Your Guide to Finding Love, the Island Way, London: Blink Publishing, →ISBN, page 50:
      Some of my friends drop everyone out as soon as they get a girlfriend, and they alienate people. Or they stop going out to the gym and doing things they love because they're all about the other person. When you do that you're sacrificing yourself and you will be left with nothing if you split up. You'll have to start again and get back in contact with all your mates you've pied off. Shame.
    • 2018 September 18, @_kirstenanna, Twitter‎, archived from the original on 27 January 2024:
      just my luck been put in a presentation group at uni with a guy I pied on tinder last week HAHA gud
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English pye, from Old French pie, from Latin pīca, feminine of pīcus (“woodpecker”). Cognate with speight. Doublet of pica.

Noun

pie (plural pies)

  2. (obsolete) Magpie.
Derived terms

Etymology 3

From Hindi पाई (pāī, “low-denomination coin”), from Sanskrit पादिका (pādikā, “foot, shoe”), from पाद (pāda, “foot, base, quarter”) + -इक (-ika, “-ic: forming adjectives”).

Noun

pie (plural pie or pies)

  1. (historical) A former low-denomination coin of northern India.
    • 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.
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Etymology 4

From Hindi पाहि (pāhi, “migrant farmer, passer-through”), from Sanskrit पार्श्व (pārśva, “side, vicinity”).

Noun

pie (plural pies)

  1. (zoology) Ellipsis of pie-dog (“an Indian breed, a stray dog in Indian contexts”).

Etymology 5

From Spanish pie (“foot, Spanish foot”). Doublet of foot, pes, and pous.

Noun

pie (plural pies)

  1. (historical) A traditional Spanish unit of length, equivalent to about 27.9 cm.
    Synonym: foot (in Spanish contexts)
Coordinate terms

Etymology 6

Noun

pie

  1. (letterpress typography) Alternative form of pi (“metal type that has been spilled, mixed together, or disordered”).

Verb

pie (third-person singular simple present pies, present participle pieing, simple past and past participle pied)

  1. (transitive) Alternative form of pi (“to spill or mix printing type”).
    • 1943, Esther Forbes Hoskins, Johnny Tremain:
      The door of the [printing] shop was shattered. He went in. The presses were broken. The type pied.

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Asturian

Asturian Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

From Latin pes, pedem.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpje/ [ˈpje]
  • Rhymes: -e
  • Syllabification: pie

Noun

pie m (plural pies)

  1. foot

Further reading

  • Xosé Lluis García Arias (2002–2004), “pie”, in Diccionario general de la lengua asturiana [General Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Spanish), Editorial Prensa Asturiana, →ISBN
  • “pie”, in Diccionariu de la llingua asturiana [Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Asturian), 1ª edición, Academia de la Llingua Asturiana, 2000, →ISBN

Champenois

Etymology

Inherited from Old French pie, from Latin pica.

Pronunciation

Noun

pie f (plural pies)

  1. magpie, Pica

References

  • Daunay, Jean (1998), Parlers de Champagne : Pour un classement thématique du vocabulaire des anciens parlers de Champagne (Aube - Marne - Haute-Marne)‎ (in French), Rumilly-lés-Vaudes
  • Baudoin, Alphonse (1885), Glossaire de la forêt de Clairvaux‎ (in French), Troyes
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Esperanto

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpie/
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  • Rhymes: -ie
  • Hyphenation: pi‧e

Adverb

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.

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French pie, from Latin pīca (“magpie”), feminine of pīcus (“woodpecker”).

Pronunciation

Noun

pie f (plural pies)

  1. magpie

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Galician

Verb

pie

  1. (reintegrationist norm) inflection of piar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Italian

Adjective

pie f pl

  1. feminine plural of pio

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