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pieing noun

  • An instance of throwing a pie at someone, often a politician or other powerful or influential person as a means of protest.
 entartage, entartement

pie noun

  /paɪ/ , /pɑɪ/
  • Any of various other, non-pastry dishes that maintain the general concept of a shell with a filling.
 tarte
  • 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.)
 tarte, tourte
  • (figuratively) The whole of a wealth or resource, to be divided in parts.
 gâteau
  • 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.
 tourte, tarte

pie verb

  /paɪ/ , /pɑɪ/
  • (transitive) To hit in the face with a pie, either for comic effect or as a means of protest (see also pieing).
 entarter

PIE adjective

  /piː.aɪ.iː/
  • (linguistics, anthropology, etc.) Initialism of Proto-Indo-European.
 IE, PIE, pIE
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