• enPR:pī
  • (US,UK)IPA^(key):/paɪ/

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  • (General Australian)IPA^(key):/pɑɪ/

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• Homophone:pi
• Rhymes:-aɪ

FromMiddle Englishpye,pie,pey, perhaps fromOld English*pīe(“pastry”) (compareOld Englishpīe,pēo(“insect, bug”)), attested in early Middle Englishpiehus(“bakery”, literally“pie-house”)c. 1199. Relation toMedieval Latinpica,pia(“pie, pastry”) is unclear, as there are no similar terms found in any Romance languages; therefore, likeIrishpióg(“pie”), the Latin term may have been simply borrowed from the English.

Some sources state the word comes fromLatinpīca(“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), ultimately fromProto-Indo-European*(s)peyk-(“woodpecker; magpie”), though this has its controversies. However, if so, then it is adoublet ofpica.

pie (countable anduncountable,pluralpies)

1. A type ofpastry that consists of an outer crust and afilling. (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 kidneypie for dinner and cherrypie for dessert.

   • c.1588–1593 (date written),William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London:[…]Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act V, scene iii]:

     SATURNINUS: Go fetch them hither to us presently.
     TITUS: Why, there they are, both baked in thatpie,
     Whereof their mother daintily hath fed,
     Eating the flesh that she herself hath bred.

2. Any of various other, non-pastry dishes that maintain the general concept of a shell with a filling.

   Shepherd'spie is made of mince covered with mashed potato.

3. (Northeastern US) Apizza.
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; acustard pie; acream pie.
5. (figuratively) Thewhole of a wealth orresource, to be divided in parts.
   • 2010 December 4,Evan Thomas, “Why It’s Time to Worry”, inNewsweek‎^[1]:

     It is easier to get along when everyone, more or less, is getting ahead. But when thepie is shrinking, social groups are more likely to turn on each other.

6. (cricket) An especially badlybowled ball.
7. Apie 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; apiece of cake.
   • 1989,PC Mag, volume 8, number 5, page91:

     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 howMicrosoft Windows code would bepie to translate to the Presentation Manager.

9. (slang) Thevulva.
   • 1981, William Kotzwinkle,Jack in the Box:

     "Yeah, take it off!" "SHOW US YOURPIE!" 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, page238:

     Yeah, some guys like to eat the old hairypie. Women, too, or so I've heard.

10. (slang) Akilogram ofdrugs, especiallycocaine.
    • 1997 January 3, “Can't Nobody Hold Me Down”‎^[2]performed bySean Combs ft.Mase:

      Did fed time outta townpie flipper / Turn Cristal into a crooked-I sipper

    • [1998 October 18, “Ebonics”‎^[3]performed byBig L:

      My weed smoke is my lye, a ki of coke is apie / When I'm lifted I'm high, with new clothes on I'm fly]

    • 1999 July 13, “Discipline”‎^[4]performed byGang Starr ft.Total:

      I love the cutie pies, never the zootiepies

pie (third-person singular simple presentpies,present participlepieing,simple past and past participlepied)

1. (transitive) To hit in the face with a pie, either for comic effect or as a means of protest (see alsopieing).

   I'd like to see someonepie the chairman of the board.

2. (transitive) To go around (a corner) in a guarded manner.
4. (transitive,UK,slang, often followed byoff) Toignore (someone).
   • 2017,Marcel Somerville,Dr Marcel's Little Book of Big Love: Your Guide to Finding Love, the Island Way, London:Blink Publishing,→ISBN,page50:

     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'vepied off. Shame.

   • 2018 September 18, @_kirstenanna,Twitter‎^[5], archived fromthe original on27 January 2024:

     just my luck been put in a presentation group at uni with a guy Ipied on tinder last week HAHA gud

FromMiddle Englishpye, fromOld Frenchpie, fromLatinpīca, feminine ofpīcus(“woodpecker”), fromProto-Indo-European*(s)peyk-(“woodpecker; magpie”). Cognate withspeight.Doublet ofpica.

pie (pluralpies)

2. (obsolete)Magpie.
   • 1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym;Charlotte Brontë], “Which the Genteel Reader is recommended to Skip, Low Persons being here Introduced”, inShirley. A Tale. […], volume II, London:Smith, Elder and Co., […],→OCLC,page174:

     Joe looked as if he thought this talk was like the chattering of apie.

• piebald
• pied
• sea pie

FromHindiपाई(pāī,“low-denominationcoin”), fromSanskritपादिका(pādikā,“foot,shoe”), fromपाद(pāda,“foot,base,quarter”) +-इक(-ika,“-ic:formingadjectives”).

pie (pluralpieorpies)

1. (historical) Aformerlow-denominationcoin ofnorthernIndia.
   • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes”, inThe Phantom ’Rickshaw and Other Tales, Folio Society, published2005, page117:

     I gave him all the money in my possession,Rs.9.8.5. – nine rupees, eight annas, and fivepie – for I always keep small change asbakshish when I am in camp.

• paisa(3 pies),anna(12 pies),rupee(192 pies)

FromHindiपाहि(pāhi,“migrantfarmer,passer-through”), fromSanskritपार्श्व(pārśva,“side,vicinity”).

pie (pluralpies)

1. (zoology)Ellipsis ofpie-dog: anIndianbreed, astray dog inIndiancontexts.

FromSpanishpie(“foot,Spanishfoot”), fromLatinpēs(“foot,Romanfoot”), fromProto-Indo-European*pṓds.Doublet offoot,pes, andpous.

pie (pluralpies)

1. (historical) AtraditionalSpanishunit oflength,equivalent to about 27.9cm.

   Synonym:foot(in Spanish contexts)

• punto(¹⁄₁₇₂₈ pie),linea(¹⁄₁₄₄ pie),pulgada(¹⁄₁₂ pie),coto(³⁄₈ pie),sesma(¹⁄₂ pie),palmo(³⁄₄ pie),codo(1+¹⁄₂ pies),vara(3 pies),paso(5 pies),estado,braza, ortoesa(6 pies),estadal(12 pies),cordel(150 pies),milla(5,000 pies),legua(15,000 pies)

pie

1. (letterpresstypography)Alternative form ofpi(“metal type that has been spilled, mixed together, or disordered”)

pie (third-person singular simple presentpies,present participlepieing,simple past and past participlepied)

1. (transitive)Alternative form ofpi(“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 typepied.

• “pie n.”, inGreen’s Dictionary of Slang,Jonathon Green, 2016–present
• “pie”, inDictionary.com Unabridged,Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

• kueh pie tee

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

FromLatinpes, pedem.

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

pie m (pluralpies)

1. foot

• peón

Inherited fromOld Frenchpie, fromLatinpica.

IPA^(key):/pi/

pie f (pluralpies)

1. magpie,Pica

• Daunay, Jean (1998)Parlers de Champagne : Pour un classement thématique du vocabulaire des anciens parlers de Champagne (Aube - Marne - Haute-Marne)‎^[6] (in French), Rumilly-lés-Vaudes
• Baudoin, Alphonse (1885)Glossaire de la forêt de Clairvaux‎^[7] (in French), Troyes

• IPA^(key):/ˈpie/

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• Rhymes:-ie
• Hyphenation: pi‧e

pie

1. piously
   • 1922, Ivan H. Krestanoff (tr.), “En la tombejo”, inNuntempaj Rakontoj‎^[8], Leipzig: Ferdinand Hirt & Sohn, translation of original by G. P. Stamatov, page15:

     Nadjapie stariĝis apud la kruco.

     Nadiapiously stood next to the cross.

Inherited fromOld Frenchpie, fromLatinpīca(“magpie”), feminine ofpīcus(“woodpecker”).

• IPA^(key):/pi/

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• Homophones:pi,pies,pis

pie f (pluralpies)

1. magpie

• bavard comme une pie
• fromage à la pie
• pie bavarde

• “pie”, inTrésor de la langue française informatisé[Digitized Treasury of the French Language],2012.

• épi,I.-P.-E.,IPE,ipé

pie

1. (reintegrationist norm) inflection ofpiar:
   1. first/third-personsingularpresentsubjunctive
   2. third-personsingularimperative

pie f pl

1. feminineplural ofpio

• epi-,pei

• pye

Inherited fromOld Spanishpie,pied,piet(“foot”), fromLatinpedem.

Cognate withAsturianpie,Galician andPortuguesepé, andCatalanpeu.

pie m (Hebrew spellingפיי)^[1]

1. foot(end of a leg)
   • 1940,La boz de Türkiye‎^[9], numbers11–34,page78:

     La ciudad de Bursa es fraguada en amphitheatre a lospies del Olympe (Oulou Dağ) y abrasa una vaste y magnifica valle con un hermoso panorama.

     The city of Bursa has constructed an amphitheatre at thefeet of Olympus and embraces a vast and wonderful valley with a beautiful panorama.

piē (comparativepius,superlativepissimē)

1. piously,devoutly
2. dutifully,loyally

pie

1. vocativemasculinesingular ofpius

• “pie”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pie”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pie inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894)Latin Phrase-Book‎^[10], 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 bijupie tēva ―I wasat my father's

2. on

   mājapie jūras ―a houseon the sea

3. to

   braukšupie tevis ―I will goto your place

pie

1. Nonstandard spelling ofpiē.
2. Nonstandard spelling ofpiě.
3. Nonstandard spelling ofpiè.

• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the criticaltonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

FromMedieval Latinpīca.

pie

1. Alternative form ofpye(“pie”)

FromOld Frenchpie.

pie

1. Alternative form ofpye(“magpie”)

FromOld Frenchpie, fromLatinpica, feminine ofpicus(“woodpecker”).

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pie f (pluralpies)

1. (Jersey) femalemagpie
   • 1903, Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, inGuernsey Folk Lore‎^[11], page520:

     Vieillepie a plus d'un pertus à son nic.

     An oldmagpie has more than one hole in her nest.

• mèrgot

• (sex):piêté

• IPA^(key):/pi͜yː/

pīe f

1. Alternative form ofpēo

FromLatinpīca.

• IPA^(key):/ˈpi.ə/

pieoblique singular, f (oblique pluralpies,nominative singularpie,nominative pluralpies)

1. magpie

• Champenois:pie
• French:pie
• Jersey Norman:pie⇒piêté
• → Middle English:pye
  • English:pie⇒magpie,piebald,pied
  • Scots:pie⇒pyat
    • → Scottish Gaelic:pitheid
  • Yola:pee
  • → Welsh:pi,pia⇒piod

FromLatinpedem, singular accusative ofpēs, fromProto-Indo-European*pṓds.

• IPA^(key):/ˈpje/

pie m (pluralpies)

1. (anatomy)foot
   • c.1200, Almerich,Fazienda de Ultramar,f. 28r:

     Vinierõ al flũ con el arca del teſtamẽt e q̃ndo cataron lospies de los ſac̃dotes enel agua partierõ ſe las aguas adieſtro ⁊ aſinieſtro e eſtidierõ cuemo mõtõ[…]

     They came to the river with the Ark of the Testimony, and when thefeet of the priests touched the water the waters parted to the right and to the left, and they stood up like a heap[…]

2. foot; thebase of amountain
   • c.1200, Almerich,Fazienda de Ultramar,f. 18r:

     Aduxo moẏſẽ el pueblo del albergada. Al encuẽtro del nr̃o sẽnor e eſtidierõ alpie del mõt en mõte sẏnaẏ.

     Moses led the people from the camp to meet Our Lord, and they stood at thefoot of the mountain, Mount Sinai.

• Ladino:pye
• Spanish:pie

pie

1. inflection ofpiar:
   1. first/third-personsingularpresentsubjunctive
   2. third-personsingularimperative

• (Dundee)peh
• py,pye

FromMiddle Englishpye

pie (pluralpies)

1. pie(particularly savoury)

Inherited fromOld Spanishpie, fromLatinpedem.

Cognate withAsturianpie,Galician andPortuguesepé, andCatalanpeu. As an English unit, acalque ofEnglishfoot.

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

pie m (pluralpies)

1. foot(a part of the body)

   Synonym:(of an animal)pata

2. English orAmericanfoot(a unit of length equal to 30.48 cm)
3. (historical, measure)pie, aSpanishfoot(a former unit of length equivalent to about 27.9 cm)

   Synonym:tercia

4. (poetry)foot(a part of a poetic line)
5. foot,base
   • 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes,Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page203:

     Para hacer daño a una persona, se hecha un sapo dentro de su bacinica con orines, se tapa el tiesto y se entierra alpie de un árbol. Desde ese momento comienza a enflaquecer la persona a quien se ha hecho el daño y muere hética cuando el líquido ha concluído de evaporarse y el sapo se ha momificado.

     (pleaseadd an English translation of this quotation)

6. (design,typography)footer(the bottom of a page or design)

• pié(obsolete)

• (English unit of length):pulgada(¹⁄₁₂ pie),yarda(3 pies),milla(5,280 pies)
• (Spanish unit of length):punto(¹⁄₁₇₂₈ pie),línea(¹⁄₁₄₄ pie),pulgada(¹⁄₁₂ pie),coto(³⁄₈ pie),sesma(¹⁄₂ pie),palmo(³⁄₄ pie),codo(1+¹⁄₂ pies),vara(3 pies),paso(5 pies),estado,braza, ortoesa(6 pies),estadal(12 pies),cordel(150 pies),milla(5,000 pies),legua(15,000 pies)

See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

• IPA^(key):/ˈpje/[ˈpje],/piˈe/[piˈe]
• Rhymes:-e
• Syllabification:pie,pi‧e

pie

1. first-personsingularpreteriteindicative ofpiar

• pié(superseded)

Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishpie.

• IPA^(key):/ˈpai/[ˈpai̯]
• Rhymes:-ai

pie m (pluralpies)

1. (Central America,South America)pie

• Spanish-speaking Central and South Americans use the English loanwordpie to refer to certain kinds of pies but not all kinds of pies. Some types of pies are referred to astarta. It very much depends on the region for which term to use.Tarta is much more frequent, however.

According toRoyal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

• pay(Mexico)

• “pie”, inDiccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8,Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish:Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10