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adj
Initialism of Proto-Indo-European.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable, usually
Topics: anthropology, human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
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name
Initialism of Proto-Indo-European.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, usually
Topics: anthropology, human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
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name
Initialism of Pan Island Expressway.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Singapore, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
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name
Initialism of Paedophile Information Exchange.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, historical, initialism
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noun
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.)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Any of various other, non-pastry dishes that maintain the general concept of a shell with a filling.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
A pizza.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northeastern, US, countable, uncountable
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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
The whole of a wealth or resource, to be divided in parts.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, figuratively, uncountable
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Synonyms: cake
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noun
An especially badly bowled ball.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: ball-games, cricket, games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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noun
A pie chart.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Something very easy; a piece of cake.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, informal, uncountable
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noun
The vulva.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, slang, uncountable
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noun
A kilogram of drugs, especially cocaine.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, slang, uncountable
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noun
Magpie.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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noun
A former low-denomination coin of northern India.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
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noun
Ellipsis of pie-dog (“an Indian breed, a stray dog in Indian contexts”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
Topics: biology, natural-sciences, zoology
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noun
A traditional Spanish unit of length, equivalent to about 27.9 cm.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
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Synonyms: foot
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noun
Alternative form of pi (“metal type that has been spilled, mixed together, or disordered”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative
Topics: letterpress-typography, media, publishing, typography
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noun
Initialism of public-interest entity.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
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verb
To hit in the face with a pie, either for comic effect or as a means of protest (see also pieing).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
To go around (a corner) in a guarded manner.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
To ignore (someone).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, often, slang, transitive
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verb
Alternative form of pi (“to spill or mix printing type”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative, transitive
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noun
a prehistoric unrecorded language that was the ancestor of all Indo-European languages
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Proto-Indo European
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Broader terms: Indo-European, Indo-European language, Indo-Hittite
noun
dish baked in pastry-lined pan often with a pastry top
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: pastry
Narrower terms: tart, deep-dish pie, cobbler, shoofly pie, mince pie, apple pie, lemon meringue pie, blueberry pie, rhubarb pie, pecan pie, pumpkin pie, squash pie, patty, meat pie
History
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.
From Middle English pye, from Old French pie, from Latin pīca, feminine of pīcus (“woodpecker”). Doublet of pica and speight.
From Hindi पाई (pāī, “low-denomination coin”), from Sanskrit पादिका (pādikā, “foot, shoe”), from पाद (pāda, “foot, base, quarter”) + -इक (-ika, “-ic: forming adjectives”).
From Hindi पाहि (pāhi, “migrant farmer, passer-through”), from Sanskrit पार्श्व (pārśva, “side, vicinity”).
From Spanish pie (“foot, Spanish foot”). Doublet of foot, pes, and pous.
Across languages
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