tadago-pie

(archaic) A special meat pie from Cornwall, made from aborted miscarried pigs.


pie

en-noun

pie (countable and uncountable, plural pies)

→ Bulgarian: пай (paj)

→ Cantonese: 批 (pai¹)

→ Finnish: pai

→ Hebrew: פַּאי

→ Japanese: パイ

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→ 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)

From Middle English pye, pie, pey, perhaps from Old English *pīe (“pastry”) (compare Old English pīe, pēo (“insect, bug”)), attested in early Middle English piehus (“bakery”, literally “pie-house”) c. 1199. Relation to Medieval Latin pica, pia (“pie, pastry”) is unclear, as there are no similar terms found in any Romance languages; therefore, like Irish pióg (“pie”), the Latin term may have been simply borrowed from the English.
Some sources state the word comes from Latin pīca (“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 from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peyk- (“woodpecker; magpie”), though this has its controversies. However, if so, then it is a doublet of pica.

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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.


mince pie

A pie, traditionally served around Christmas time, having a filling of mincemeat (now usually in the sweet sense) and sometimes also containing alcohol or other ingredients.

коледен пай

mincemeat-filled pie served around Christmas


apple pie

en-verb

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

apple pies (present singular third-person)
apple pieing (participle present)
apple pied (participle past)
apple pied (past)

[ˌæp.ɫ̩ˈpaɪ]

/ˌæp.əlˈpɑɪ/

[ˌæp.ɫ̩ˈpɑɪ]

(transitive) Of a bed, to make an apple-pie bed.


pasty

From Middle English paste, from Anglo-Norman paste and Old French pasté. Doublet of patty.

A type of seasoned meat and vegetable hand pie, usually of a semicircular shape.

пастет

A type of seasoned meat and vegetable pie


coca

en-noun

coca (usually uncountable, plural cocas)

→ Chinese: 古柯 (gǔkē)

Borrowed from Spanish coca, from Quechua kuka, perhaps from Aymara.

The dried leaf of one of these plants, the South American shrub (Erythroxylum coca), widely cultivated in Andean countries, which is the source of cocaine and used as aphrodisiac in the past.

кока

the dried leaf of a South American shrub (Erythroxylon coca)


pork pie

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quiche

quiche (countable and uncountable, plural quiches)

→ Japanese: キッシュ (kisshu)

→ Korean: 키슈 (kisyu)

Borrowed from French quiche, from Lorraine Rhine Franconian Küeche (“cake”), from Middle High German kuoche (German Kuchen, English kuchen), from Old High German kuocho, kuohho, from Proto-Germanic *kōkô (English cookie), from Proto-Indo-European *gog- (“ball-shaped object”), whence also English cake (via Proto-Germanic *kakǭ (“cake”)). Compare Persian کوکو (kuku, “quiche”). More at cake.
The sexually alluring sense orignates from the 2013 Australian TV sitcom Ja'mie: Private School Girl, where it is defined as "a step above hot".

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A pie made primarily of egg and cream, perhaps mixed with chopped meat or vegetables, in a pastry crust.


banoffee pie

en-noun

banoffee pie (countable and uncountable, plural banoffee pies)

Many walkers who had never travelled this route before were hugely impressed by the scenic beauty of the line, which they enjoyed along with another excellent meal of lasagne with garlic bread, followed by banoffee pie.

2023 July 12, Paul Bigland, “Walkers and helpers play a 3 Peaks blinder”, in RAIL, number 987, page 60:

A dessert made from bananas, toffee and cream on a base of crushed biscuit or similar.


custard pie

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A pie made from an uncooked custard mixture added to an uncooked or partially cooked crust and then baked as a whole.

A prop used in slapstick, consisting of an open pie filled with custard or cream (or, more often nowadays, simply a paper plate covered with shaving foam or a similar substance) that is pushed into another person's face.


meat pie

meat pie (countable and uncountable, plural meat pies)

My sister-in-law from Corsica makes the best quiche and the best meat pie in the world.

If flour ran short we can be certain it was saved for gravies, dumplings, cakes and gingerbread, and pie crust, and most particularly for meat pie.

1960, Harriette Simpson Arnow, Seedtime on the Cumberland, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →LCCN, page 418:

She averted her eyes, looking toward Crispin, who ate meat pie and a large slice of roasted ox with healthy relish and without seeming to notice her discomfort.

1995, Flora Speer, For Love and Honor, Dorchester Publishing, →ISBN, page 26:

In the case of meat pies that have a jelly or stock added after cooking, the stock and meat should be sampled separately as well as together in a combined sample.

1998, W. F. Harrigan, Laboratory Methods in Food Microbiology, page 220:

Meat pies, which used to be a traditional Acadian Christmastime treat, are one of Louisiana′s least-touted specialties.

2009, Jane Stern, Michael Stern, 500 Things to Eat Before It's Too Late: And the Very Best Places to Eat Them, page 179:

It was to Liubotyn station that I and my best mate Sasha once ventured on our lives' first (meaning without the adults) train ride. […] We got off at Liubotyn, then sleepy and unmistakeably rural, bought a couple of wrinkled meat pies at a station kiosk, and got back on the train.

2024 September 4, Vitali Vitaliev, “A salute to Ukraine's 'Second Army'”, in RAIL, number 1017, page 46:

(non-idiomatic usage, cooking) A pie containing meat.

(a) Meat pie is cooked meat with or without cereal, condiments seasoning and water, enclosed in a case of pastry.
(b) Meat pie shall contain not less than twenty-five parts per centum of meat when determined by the prescribed method.

1979, John L. Goldring, L. W. Maher, Consumer Protection Law in Australia, page 119:

Meat pies are an Australian favourite and are sold in cake and sandwich shops from one end of the land to the other. The classic version is simple – an individual, 2-crust pie full of chopped beef in a rich gravy.

2005, Margaret Fulton, Encyclopedia of Food and Cookery: The Complete Kitchen Companion from A to Z, Revised edition, page 444:

If you think the major ingredient in most meat pies is meat you’re in for a disappointment. But some brands are meatier than others.

2006 May, Australian Consumers′ Association, Choice, page 9:

(Australia, New Zealand) A hand-sized pot pie containing largely minced meat and gravy and typically consumed as a takeaway food snack.


cream pie

cream pie (countable and uncountable, plural cream pies)

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The young men and women slinging plate lunches and mammoth slices of cream pie on the tables recall the energetic waitresses from the good old days.

1993, Michael Wallis, Way Down Yonder in the Indian Nation: Writings from America’s Heartland, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page 44:

(originally Canada, US) A pie, usually filled with fruit, topped with whipped cream.


cottage pie

cottage pie (countable and uncountable, plural cottage pies)

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Cottage Pie.— Mince any kind of cold meat together (beef, mutton, veal, pork, or lamb), put it about an inch or and inch and a half deep in a pie dish, and cover it with gravy; don't spare salt and pepper; cover it over with mashed potatoes smooth at the top, and cut it across in diamonds with a knife; bake till it is crisp and brown at the top.

1873, Godey's Magazine, volumes 86-87, page 82:

The recipes are of dishes suitable to the varying means of working men, such as cottage pie, haricot beans, scrap-bread pudding, Exeter stew, poor man's goose, and many others, combining economy and palatableness.

1883, Fanny L. Calder, “Practical Cookery in Elementary Schools”, in Good Words, page 60:

When cold they are used for russoles, minced cutlets, croquettes, cottage pies, and souffles.

1903 January, Mary Caldwell, “The Diet Kitchen”, in The Trained Nurse and Hospital Review, volume 32, page 184:

So it was the Kawaki Tribe's intention to bake a cottage pie on an open campfire to scare off the queen of the witches, and without Moussaka to give orders, the witches would have no idea what to do, working with their own initiative.

2013, Lauren West, The Wrath of Margaret, page 81:

A meat pie having a mashed potato crust covering a mixture of beef (typically minced) and vegetables.


shepherd's pie

shepherd's pie (countable and uncountable, plural shepherd's pies)

Here am I / Tiny Fly / May I share your Shepherd's Pie?

1968, “The Hungry Intruder”, in Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake, performed by Small Faces:

A meat pie having a mashed potato crust, especially one made with lamb or mutton.


humble pie

humble pie (countable and uncountable, plural humble pies)

The expression derives from umble pie, the original name of the offal meat pie, considered inferior food. In medieval times the pie was often served to lower-class people. Although "umbles" and the modern word "humble" are etymologically unrelated, each word has appeared both with and without the initial "h" after the Middle Ages until the 19th century.

(dated) A pie made from the offal of deer or hog.


pumpkin pie

pumpkin pie (countable and uncountable, plural pumpkin pies)

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(cooking) A sweet pie made from the flesh of pumpkins and traditionally served as a dessert on Thanksgiving.


pie floater

(Australia) A meat pie served floating in a bowl of thick green pea soup.


party pie

(Australia) A small meat pie intended as a party snack.


Karelian pasty

Karelian pasty (plural Karelian pasties)

A traditional pasty from Karelia, usually with a rye crust and now most often eaten with a mixture of boiled eggs and butter.


mud pie

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A mass of mud shaped into the form of a pie, especially by children.


lemon meringue pie

lemon meringue pie (countable and uncountable, plural lemon meringue pies)

On the plate was a tall, glistening slice of lemon meringue pie, vivid yellow and fluffy white.

2022, Rachel Linden, The Magic of Lemon Drop Pie, Berkley, →ISBN, page 325:

A pie made of meringue, pastry and lemon curd.


bisteeya

When the recipe for the Moroccan pigeon pie bisteeya came out, it also entered my repertory for entertaining.

2007 April 8, “Letters”, in New York Times:

A sweet and savory pie common in Moroccan cuisine, made with an outer layer of phyllo dough around a filling made of poultry, spices, and ground almonds


pissaladière

pissaladière (countable and uncountable, plural pissaladières)

Borrowed from French pissaladière, in turn borrowed from Niçard Provençal pissaladiera, from pissalat (an anchovy-based condiment), from peis salat (“salted fish”), suffixed with -iera.

“You never ate pissaladière, did you? It’s just as good as pizza, you’ll see. Some people like it even better.”

1980, Robert Beauvais, translated by Harold J. Salemson, The Half Jew, New York, N.Y.: Taplinger Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 23:

A pie from southern France, similar to pizza, without tomatoes or cheese, usually topped with onions, anchovies and black olives.


gala pie

A pork pie with a proportion of chicken meat, and a hard-boiled egg in the centre.


shoofly pie

shoofly pie (countable and uncountable, plural shoofly pies)

From shoo + fly + pie. So called because the molasses attracts flies, which must be shooed away.

Shoo-Fly Pie and Apple Pan Dowdy / Make your eyes light up / Your tummy say, "Howdy." / Shoo-Fly Pie and Apple Pan Dowdy / I never get enough of that wonderful stuff.

1945, “Shoo-Fly Pie and Apple Pan Dowdy”, Sammy Gallop (music):

A fluffy pie made from molasses with a crumb cake top, traditional among the Pennsylvania Dutch.


piefight

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A fight involving pies, especially the comical throwing of custard pies.


pieshop

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squab pie

squab pie (countable and uncountable, plural squab pies)

A traditional English pie containing mutton and apple.


tourtière

tourtière (countable and uncountable, plural tourtières)

From Canadian French tourtière, from a cooking vessel of the same name, from French tourte (“meat pie”). There is a common false etymology that it derives from the alternative meaning tourte (“passenger pigeon”).

Last December, I called my mother to get her recipe for tourtière, a beloved traditional French-Canadian dish. It would be the meaningful heart of a bundle of gifts I had lovingly gathered to honour a Métis elder I had recently met. To share this recipe for tourtière was to share a piece of my family’s story with this elder, to whom I owed a great debt of gratitude.

2018 November 30, Isabelle Bourgeault-Tassé, “How a family recipe taught me what’s at stake when Franco-Ontarians lose their roots”, in The Globe and Mail:

(Canada, chiefly Quebec) A type of traditional French-Canadian meat pie, usually made with pork.


Périgord pie

Named after Périgord, a geographical region, and former province of France, famed for its truffles.

(archaic) A gourmet meat pie made with game (such as duck or partridge) and truffles.


butter pie

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(UK) A traditional savoury pie consisting mainly of onions and potatoes.


Montgomery pie

Named after Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

A kind of shoofly pie with lemon juice added to the bottom layer and buttermilk to the topping.


Mississippi mud pie

Mississippi mud pie (countable and uncountable, plural Mississippi mud pies)

So named because of its likely origin in Mississippi and resemblance to mud, as the pie’s appearance could remind casual observers of Mississippi River mud.

A dessert pie with gooey chocolate sauce on a crumbly chocolate crust.


chess pie

chess pie (countable and uncountable, plural chess pies)

/ˈt͡ʃɛs ˌpaɪ/

/ˈt͡ʃɛs ˌpaɪ/

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Uncertain; most likely from cheese pie; early versions were similar in texture to British lemon curd pies or cheesecakes, and earlier "cheesecakes" often lacked cheese, instead resembling modern chess pies or chess cakes.
Other theories include:
* from a Southern pronunciation of (it's) jes' pie, as it contrasts with flavored pies like pecan, cherry, chocolate, etc.
* from chest pie, as the high sugar content means it can be stored in a "pie chest" (pie safe) rather than needing refrigeration.
* from some association with the game of chess.
* from Chester, England.

(Southern US, Midland US) A pie made with eggs, sugar, butter, vanilla, and cornmeal.

Dictionary of American Regional English
chess pie


buko pie

(Philippines) coconut pie, especially the Filipino variant made with young coconuts and condensed milk


fisherman's pie

fisherman's pie (usually uncountable, plural fisherman's pies)

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A pie made with white fish (such as cod, haddock, or halibut) in a white or béchamel sauce made with the milk the fish was poached in.


pecan pie

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A sweet pie made from corn syrup and pecans, considered a specialty of Southern United States cuisine.


vinegar pie

vinegar pie (countable and uncountable, plural vinegar pies)

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A chess pie with a little vinegar added.


Bob Andy pie

Named after two legendary gelding workhorses.

A sweet pie, similar to a custard pie, spiced with cinnamon and cloves.


Key lime pie

Key lime pie (countable and uncountable, plural Key lime pies)

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An American dessert made of Key lime juice, egg yolks, and sweetened condensed milk in a pie crust, often with a meringue topping.


Scotch pie

A small double-crust meat pie eaten in the United Kingdom and Canada.


fatayer

From North Levantine Arabic, South Levantine Arabic and Gulf Arabic فَطَايِر (faṭāyir), equivalent to standard Arabic فَطَائِر (faṭāʔir), plural of فَطِيرة (faṭīra, “pie”).

Savory pie sandwich famous in Arab and Middle Eastern countries that is stuffed with item(s) such as meat, cheese, spinach, halloumi, or labna.


sugar pie

sugar pie (countable and uncountable, plural sugar pies)

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homity pie

homity pie (countable and uncountable, plural homity pies)

The Slim Inn told us other main meals include torfu^([sic]) lasagne ($3.75), lentil rissoles ($3.20), peanut croquettes ($3.20) and olde English homity pie which contains potato, parsley, garlic and onions for $3.75.

1983 June 17, The Age, Melbourne, Australia, page 51:

[…] homity pie with leeks, potato, spinach, parsley and cheese with a red pepper sauce […]

1997, Alisdair Aird, The Good Pub Guide 1998:

A traditional British dish resembling quiche, with potatoes, onion, leek and cheese in a pastry case.


Yorkshire pie

A young servant-girl then brought in a Yorkshire pie and some cold beef; which, being set upon the table, the boy called Smike appeared with a jug of ale.

1838 March – 1839 October, Charles Dickens, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1839, →OCLC:

(UK, historical) A very large, tall pie filled with mixed meats.


cherry pie

cherry pie (countable and uncountable, plural cherry pies)

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“This is great! Do you see all the food? Look, they have cherry pie! Yay! My favorite!” Sara exclaimed as she took a large helping of cherry pie and shoveled it onto her plate.

2013, Grace Snow, Jack Wilde, Elements: Prism’s Edge, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse LLC, →ISBN, page 83:

(dialectal, UK) Any of various willowherbs


Devizes pie

Devizes pie (countable and uncountable, plural Devizes pies)

Associated with the town of Devizes in Wiltshire, England.

A traditional pie of offal cooked in a case of huff paste.


Woolton pie

Named after Frederick Marquis, 1st Lord Woolton (1883–1964), who popularized the recipe after he became Minister of Food in 1940.

A dish of diced vegetables topped with potato pastry, introduced in wartime Britain when meat was not readily available.


gooseberry tart

gooseberry tart (plural gooseberry tarts)

Cockney rhyming slang
Cockney rhyming slang


football pie

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A Scotch pie or meat pie sold at football stadiums.


choco pie

We celebrated birthdays by putting out choco-pie and shrimp crackers and applauding.

2005, Park Min-Na, translated by Sarah Eunkyung Chee, Birth of Resistance, page 118:

A snack consisting of two small round layers of cake covered in chocolate with marshmallow filling.


carimanola

A fried South American meat pie with cheese in a torpedo-shaped yuca fritter.


Kate and Sidney pie

Kate and Sidney pie (plural Kate and Sidney pies)

steak and kidney pie
steak and kidney pie


chess tart

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snake and pygmy pie

snake and pygmy pie (plural snake and pygmy pies)


sugar cream pie

sugar cream pie (countable and uncountable, plural sugar cream pies)

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A single-crust pie with a smooth, jiggly filling made from flour, butter, salt, vanilla, cream, and brown sugar, popular especially in Indiana.


funeral pie

So-called from the Amish custom of serving them at wakes and funerals, which developed because raisins are available year-round, unlike seasonal fruits.

Taking hold of a box of raisins, she wondered how many more funeral pies she'd be making in the future. “None,” she whispered resolutely. She spent a moment in front of her spice tins and ran her fingers across the tubs filled with sugar, flour, and nuts.

2015 April 7, Ellery Adams, Lemon Pies and Little White Lies, Penguin, →ISBN:

Tiffany helped her pack the funeral pies into the buggy. “Why are they called funeral pies again?” Tiffany asked her. Miriam sighed. She hoped Tiffany would not ask too many questions that she had already answered previously.

2017 July 7, Ruth Hartzler, Amish Romance: Amish Romance, Amish Romance Books:

“Would you make some funeral pies?” “Sure.” I turned to Eleanor and Matilda. “I'll show you how to make funeral pies.” Eleanor raised her eyebrows. “But no one has died.” The Amish ladies standing by all chuckled.

2019 July 28, Ruth Hartzler, Amish Cupcake Cozy Mystery Box Set Book 1-3: Cozy mysteries, Clean Wholesome Books, →ISBN:

(US) A sweet pie with a spiced raisin- (or sometimes dried cherry-) based filling, found in Pennsylvania Dutch cuisine.


flapper pie

flapper pie (countable and uncountable, plural flapper pies)

She moved the two flapper pies and a loaf of fresh bread off the table, onto the kitchen cabinet.

1978, Robert Kroetsch, What the Crow Said, The University of Alberta Press, published 1998, →ISBN, page 66:

Maybe we ought to compare notes on a long day, have a coffee, maybe try some flapper pie.

2003, Robert Currie, Teaching Mr. Cutler, Coteau Books, →ISBN, page 155:

Sometimes he’d be paid with a case of beer, other times with a handshake or something the wife had made, a flapper pie or a sealer of canned chicken, the meat encased in jelly.

2009, Lorna Crozier, Small Beneath the Sky, Greystone Books, published 2011, →ISBN, page 30:

Come up sometime and I’ll treat you to poutine and some flapper pie.

2015, Janet Evanovich, Lee Goldberg, The Scam (A Fox and O’Hare Novel), New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 242:

Now, put on your apron, tie back your hair, and grab your mixing bowls: it’s time for some butter and brown sugar—let’s make us some flapper pie!

2016, Karlynn Johnston, Flapper Pie and a Blue Prairie Sky: A Modern Baker’s Guide to Old-Fashioned Desserts, Appetite, →ISBN:

People would come to the food booth at the Livelong Fair day and specifically ask for Mrs. Binns’s apple or flapper pies.

2019, Lois Simmie, “Sammy’s Café”, in Finding My Way: A Memoir, Coteau Books, →ISBN, pages 108–109:

A vanilla custard pie topped with meringue (or sometimes whipped cream in South Saskatchewan).


Cumberland pie

Cumberland pie (countable and uncountable, plural Cumberland pies)

A dish of minced beef and vegetables topped with sliced or mashed potatoes.