pie
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
(countable, uncountable)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.)
The family had steak and kidney pie for dinner and cherry pie for dessert.
- 2.
(countable, uncountable)Any of various other, non-pastry dishes that maintain the general concept of a shell with a filling.
Shepherd's pie is made of mince covered with mashed potato.
- 3.
(Northeastern, US, countable, uncountable)(Northeastern US) A pizza.
- 4.
(countable, uncountable)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.
- 5.
(countable, figuratively, uncountable)The whole of a wealth or resource, to be divided in parts.
- 6.
(countable, uncountable)(cricket) An especially badly bowled ball.
- 7.
(countable, uncountable)A pie chart.
- 8.
(countable, informal, uncountable)Something very easy; a piece of cake.
- 9.
(countable, slang, uncountable)The vulva.
- 10.
(countable, slang, uncountable)A kilogram of drugs, especially cocaine.
- 11.
(obsolete)Magpie.
- 12.
(historical)A former low-denomination coin of northern India.
Động từ
verb- 1.
(transitive)To hit in the face with a pie, either for comic effect or as a means of protest (see also pieing).
I'd like to see someone pie the chairman of the board.
- 2.
(transitive)To go around (a corner) in a guarded manner.
- 3.
(UK, often, slang, transitive)(transitive, UK, slang, often followed by off) To ignore (someone).
- 4.
(alt of, alternative, transitive)Alternative form of pi (“to spill or mix printing type”).
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itc-pro ine-pro From Middle English pye, pie, pey (baked dish, filled pastry), possibly attested earlier (1199) in the surname Piehus (pie-house?). Further origin.