pie Definition

pie¹
noun

1. A savoury or sweet dish, usually cooked in a container, consisting of a quantity of food with a covering of pastry, a base of pastry, or both.

Idiom: easy as pie

Very easy.

Idiom: pie in the sky

Some hoped-for but unguaranteed future prospect.

Etymology: 14c.

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pie²
pi
noun

1. printing.
Confusedly mixed type.
2. A mixed state; confusion.

Etymology: 17c.

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pie³
noun

1. An old name for magpie (sense 1).

Etymology: 13c: French, from Latin pica magpie.