Meanings (ES + gloss)
pai • pastel • pay • tarta
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.)
SATURNINUS: Go fetch them hither to us presently. TITUS: Why, there they are, both baked in that pie, Whereof their mother daintily hath fed, Eating the flesh that she herself hath…
The family had steak and kidney pie for dinner and cherry pie for dessert.
Phrases
American as apple pieAmerican pieAustralian as a meat pieBob Andy pieBoston cream pieChinese pieChristmas PieChristmas pieChristmaspieCumberland pieDevizes pieDevon pieEnglish as apple pieEskimo pieFrito pieGrosvenor pieHoosier pieI like pieJack Horner pieKarelian pieKate and Sidney pieKate and Sydney pieKey lime pieMississippi mud pieMontgomery piePyrexPérigord pieScotch pieSnickers pieStrasbourg pieStrasburg pieTwelfth Night pieWashington pieWoolton pieYorkshire piealoo pieangel pieapple pieapple-pieapple-pie bed
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