1. n.1 a baked dish of meat, fish, fruit, etc., usu. with a top and base of pastry.
2 anything resembling a pie in form (a mud pie).
Phrases and idioms:
easy as pie very easy. pie chart a circle divided into sectors to represent relative quantities. pie-eater Austral. sl. a person of little account. pie-eyed sl. drunk. pie in the sky an unrealistic prospect of future happiness after present suffering; a misleading promise.
Etymology: ME, perh. PIE(2) f. miscellaneous contents compared to objects collected by a magpie 2. n. archaic 1 a magpie.
2 a pied animal.
Etymology: ME f. OF f. L pica 3. n. & v. (US pi)
--n.
1. a confused mass of printers' type.
2 chaos.
--v.tr. (pieing) muddle up (type).
Etymology: perh. transl. F P&AC.T&EA. PIE(1) 4. n. hist. a former monetary unit of India equal to one-twelfth of an anna.
Etymology: Hind. etc. pa' i f. Skr. pad, padi quarter