pie 1
— pielike , adj.
/puy/ , n.
1. a baked food having a filling of fruit, meat, pudding, etc., prepared in a pastry-lined pan or dish and often topped with a pastry crust: apple pie; meat pie.
2. a layer cake with a filling of custard, cream jelly, or the like: chocolate cream pie.
3. a total or whole that can be divided: They want a bigger part of the profit pie.
4. an activity or affair: He has his finger in the political pie too.
5. pizza.
6. easy as pie , extremely easy or simple.
7. nice as pie , extremely well-behaved, agreeable, or the like: The children were nice as pie.
8. pie in the sky ,
a. the illusory prospect of future benefits: Political promises are often pie in the sky.
b. a state of perfect happiness; utopia: to promise pie in the sky.
[ 1275-1325; ME, of obscure orig. ]
pie 2
/puy/ , n.
magpie.
[ 1200-50; ME pica, akin to picus woodpecker ]
pie 3
/puy/ , n. , v.t. , pied, pieing .
pi 2 .
pie 4
/puy/ , n.
(in England before the Reformation) a book of ecclesiastical rules for finding the particulars of the service for the day.
Also, pye .
[ 1470-80; trans. of L pica PIE 2 ; the allusion is obscure; cf. PICA 1 ]
pie 5
/puy/ , n.
a former bronze coin of India, the 12th part of an anna. Cf. naya paisa, paisa, pice .
[ 1855-60; pa'i lit., a fourth ]