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▪ I. pie, n.1|paɪ|
Also 4–8 pye, 5–6 py, (6 pee).
[a. OF. pie (13th c. in Littré) = Pr. piga, It. pica:—L. pīca magpie.]
1. The bird now more usually called magpie.
a1250Owl & Night. 126 Þat pie and crowe hit todrowe. 1303R. Brunne Handl. Synne 355 Beleue nouȝt yn þe pyys cheteryng. c1380Wyclif Serm. Sel. Wks. I. 165 It is a foul þing þat prestis speken as pies. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xii. i. (Bodl. MS.), Alle foules of rauen kinde as chogghes crowes rokes rauens and pies. a1450Knt. de la Tour (1868) 22 Ther was a woman that had a pie in a cage. c1475Sqr. lowe Degre 47 (text of Copland c 1550), The woodwale, The pee, and the Popiniaye. a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VI 85 Pies will chatter and Mice will pepe. 1559Mirr. Mag. (1563) N iv, The Fox descrye the crowes and chateryng Pyen. 1646J. Hall Poems 4 Pies Do ever love to pick at witches eyes. 1713Swift Salamander Wks. 1755 III. ii. 75 Pyes and daws are often stil'd With christian nick-names like a child. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) V. 219 Birds of the Pie Kind. 1853C. Brontë Villette xiii, Chattering like a pie to the best gentleman in Christendom.
2. fig. Applied to
†a. a cunning or wily person: esp. in phr. wily pie (obs.);
b. a chattering or saucy person, a ‘chatter-pie’ (= magpie 2).
[c1374Chaucer Troylus iii. 478 (527) Dredles it clere was in the wynd From euery pye and euery lette game.] 1542Udall Erasm. Apoph. 321 b, One Accius..a wylie pye, and a feloe full of shiftes. c1554Interlude of Youth in Hazl. Dodsley II. 22 Ye be a little pretty pye! i-wis, ye go full gingerly. 1563B. Googe Eglogs vii. (Arb.) 60 Than cownt you them for chatring Pies Whose tongs must alwayes walke. 1579Fulke Heskins's Parl. 47 Maister Heskins like a wilie Pye, obiecteth this article of the resurrection. 1692J. Washington tr. Milton's Def. Pop. viii. 187 Salmasius, that French chatt'ring Pye. 1886Mrs. E. Lynn Linton P. Carew xl, ‘She was no more a hussy than you, you bold pie!’ said Patty in a fume.
3. With defining words, applied locally to various other birds, usually having black-and-white (‘pied’) plumage: see quots. (See also sea-pie.)
1883List Anim. Zool. Soc. (ed. 8) 283 Dendrocitta vagabunda, Wandering Tree-Pie... D. sinensis, Chinese Tree-Pie. 1885Swainson Prov. Names Brit. Birds 30 Dipper... The white breast and blackish upper plumage have caused it to be called..River pie (Ireland). Ibid. 31 British Long-tailed Titmouse..Long-tailed pie. Ibid. 47 Great Grey Shrike..Murdering pie. Ibid. 209 Black-headed Gull..Scoulton pie, or Scoulton peewit. 1890Cent. Dict. s.v., The smoky pie, Psilorhinus morio.
b. French pie, rain-pie, wood-pie: applied to various species of woodpecker. [Here perh. = OF. pi (mod.F. pic, but pivert, pi vert great green woodpecker):—L. pīc-us woodpecker; if so, really a distinct word. But French pie in quot. 1677 may be the shrike or butcher-bird, F. pie cruelle, pie grièche grise; cf. murdering pie above.]
1677N. Cox Gentl. Recreat. ii. (ed. 2) 161 Of the Short-winged Hawks there are these:..The Sparrow-hawk and Musket, Two sorts of the French Pie. 1783Ainsworth Lat. Dict. (ed. Morell) 11, Pīcus,..a woodpecker, a speckt, a hickway, or heighhould; a French pie, a whitwall. 1837–40Macgillivray Hist. Brit. Birds III. 80 Greater spotted woodpecker..wood-pie, French-pie. 1885Swainson Prov. Names Brit. Birds 98 Great Spotted Woodpecker..Wood pie (Staffordshire; Hants)... Lesser Spotted Woodpecker..Little wood pie (Hants). Ibid. 99 Green Woodpecker..Wood pie (Somerset). Ibid. 100 The constant iteration of its cry before rain..gives it the names Rain bird; Rain pie.
4. Applied to a pied or parti-coloured animal (cf. F. pie = cheval pie, Littré): in quot. to a pied hound. Cf. 5 b.
1869Daily News 7 Aug., A couple of those beautiful lemon pyes, Nosegay and Novelty..just beat the flower of the Brocklesby ‘lady pack’.
5. attrib. and Comb.
a. In compounds relating to the bird, as pie-pecked adj.; † pie-maggot, a magpie (= maggot2).
1597J. King On Jonas Ep. Ded. (1618) ⁋iij b, We all write, learned and vnlearned, crow-poets and py-poetesses. 1601Holland Pliny II. 296 margin, The Deuill take thee, or, the Rauens peck out thine eies, or I had rather see thee Pie pekt. 1602Contention Liberality & Prodigality iv. iv. in Hazl. Dodsley VIII. 366 O thou vile, ill-favoured, crow-trodden, pye-pecked rout! 1628Layton Syons Plea (ed. 2) 21 [The bishops are] Rauens and Pye-Maggots to prey upon the State. a1652Brome Queenes Exchange v. i. Wks. 1873 III. 537 What are thou..thus Piepickt, Crow⁓trod, or Sparrow blasted?
b. In compounds denoting ‘parti-coloured’, ‘of various colours’ (like the black-and-white plumage of the magpie: cf. pied 1), as pie-coated, pie-coloured adjs. See also piebald.
1630R. Brathwait Eng. Gentlem. (1641) 11 To display thy pie-coloured flag of vanity. 1813Hogg Queen's Wake 291 The pye-duck sought the depth of the main. 1848Thackeray Bk. Snobs ii, The liveries of these pie-coated retainers.
c. Friars of the Pie: see Pied friars, pied a.
▪ II. pie, n.2|paɪ|
Also 4–9 pye, 6 py, (7 paye).
[Occurs (in Latin context) in 1303; evidently a well-known popular word in 1362. No related word known outside Eng. (exc. Gaelic pighe, from Eng. or Lowland Sc.). Being in form identical with pie n.1 (known half a century earlier), it is held by many to have been in some way derived from or connected with that word. See Note below.]
1. a. A dish composed of meat, fowl, fish, fruit, or vegetables, etc., enclosed in or covered with a layer of paste and baked.
The pie appears to have been (a) at first of meat or fish; doubtful or undefined uses (b) appear in 16th c.; fruit pies (also called, esp. in the north of England and Ireland, in Scotland, and often in U.S., tarts) appear (c) before 1600, the earliest being apple-pie, q.v.
(a)1303Bolton Priory Compotus lf. 68 b, Frumentum expenditum..In pane..pro Priore Celerario et aliis..et in pyis et pastellis per annum 9 qr. 1 bus. di. 1304Ibid. lf. 82 In pane furnato..et in pyes et pastellis, 33 qr. 2 bus. di. 1362Langl. P. Pl. A. Prol. 104 Cookes and heore knaues cryen ‘hote pies, hote! Goode gees and grys, Gowe dyne, Gowe!’ c1386Chaucer Prol. 384 He koude rooste and sethe and boille [v.r. broille] and frye, Maken Mortreux and wel bake a pye. c1425Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 662/26 Hec artocria [Gr. ἀρτόκρεας bread and meat], a pie de pundio. c1430Two Cookery-bks. 53 Pyez de parez [p. 75 of Parys].—Take and smyte fayre buttys of Porke, and buttys of Vele, to-gederys [etc.]..; þan caste þer-to ȝolkys of Eyroun [etc.]..; þen make fayre past, and cofynnys, & do þer-on; kyuer it, & let bake, & serue forth. c1440Promp. Parv. 395/2 Pye, pasty, artocrea, pastillulus. 1511Fabyan Will in Chron. (1811) Pref. 9 If it happen the saide obite to fall in Lent, than..for the peces of beeff abovesaid..be ordeyned pyes of elys, or som other goode fysh mete. a1568Nyne Ordour of Knavis 66 in Bannatyne Poems (Hunter. Cl.) 448 He thrawis and he puttis fast at his vly pyiss. 1624Heywood Gunaik. ix. 444 Burnt alive, for killing young infants and salting their flesh and putting them into pyes. 1784Cook Third Voy. iv. xi. II. 495 A pye made in the form of a loaf..inclosed some salmon, highly seasoned with pepper. 1838Dickens Nich. Nick. vii, It's a pity to cut the pie if you're not hungry..Will you try a bit of the beef?
(b)1530Palsgr. 254/1 Pye a pasty, pasté. a1568‘In somer quhen flouris will smell’ 35 in Bannatyne Poems (Hunter. Cl.) 400 It is lyk that ye had eitin pyiss, Ye are so sweit. 1577Whetstone Life Gascoigne xviii, Spight foule Enuies poysoned pye. 1694Crowne Regulus ii. 12 A man all vertue, like a pye all spice, will not please. c1710C. Fiennes Diary (1888) 242 He weares a great Velvet cap..like a Turbant or great bowle in forme of a great open pye. 1765Gray Shakespeare 24 Glorious puddings and immortal pies. a1839Praed Poems (1864) II. 58 And lords made love,—and ladies, pies. 1853A. Soyer Pantroph. 284 All pass away whether they be temples, columns, pyramids, or pies.
(c)1590–1861 [see apple-pie]. 1706Phillips, Pie, a well known Dish of Meat, or Fruit bak'd in Paste. 1864Sala in Daily Tel. 18 Aug., There it is; pumpkin pie, blackberry pie, whortleberry pie, huckleberry pie—pie of all kinds.
b. With defining word, usually denoting the essential ingredient, as apple-pie, eel-pie, game-pie, meat-pie, mince-pie, pigeon-pie, plum-pie, pork-pie, rhubarb-pie, venison-pie, etc. (see these words); also Christmas pie (see Christmas 4), French pie (see quot. 1611), Périgord pie (see Périgord).
16022nd Pt. Ret. fr. Parnass. v. ii. (Arb.) 66 A black Iack of Beere, and a Christmas Pye. 1611Florio, Carne ne tegami, meate stewed between two dishes, which some call a French pie. 1698in Warrender Marchmont (1894) 184 Could pigeon paye. a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Superstitious-Pies, Minc'd, or Christmas-Pies, so Nick-nam'd by the Puritans, or Precisians. 1769Mrs. Raffald Eng. Housekpr. (1778) 155 Send it up hot without a lid, the same way as the French pye. 1798Frere & Canning in Anti-Jacobin No. 23. 120 Youthful Horner..Cull'd the dark plum from out his Christmas pye. 1834Southey Doctor cix. (1848) 266/2 The great goose-pye, which in the Christmas week was always dispatched by the York coach to Bishops⁓gate Street. 1872Calverley Fly Leaves (1881) 21 But I shrink from thee Arab! Thou eat'st eel-pie.
c. In more general allusive use, an affair, concern, etc., regarded in terms of one's possible involvement in it: to have a finger († hand) in the pie: to have a part or share in the doing of something (often implying officious intermeddling); to put a finger into (another's) pie (and variants), to meddle in (someone else's) business; to cut a pie (U.S.), to become involved in a particular matter; cold pie: see cold a. 19. See also humble pie.
1553Respublica (Brandl) i. iii. 105 Bring me in credyte, that my hande be in the pye. 1604Dekker Honest Wh. Wks. 1873 II. 171 My hand was in the Pye, my Lord, I confesse it. 1613Shakes. Hen. VIII, i. i. 52 The diuill speed him: No mans Pye is freed From his Ambitious finger. 1649Man in Moon No. 33. 262 We heare Jermyn and the Lord Culpepper had a finger in the pye. 1843T. C. Haliburton Attaché 1st Ser. I. xi. 180 By gosh Aunty,..you had better not cut that pie: you will find it rather sour in the apple sarse, and tough in the paste. 1868‘Mark Twain’ Let. 6 Feb. (1920) 85 They want to send me abroad, as a Consul or a Minister. I said I didn't want any of the pie. 1871J. O. Brookfield Influence II. 12, I don't see what excuse she has for putting her finger into everybody's pie as she does. 1879London Society Christmas Number 87/2 If you keep straight yourself you'll have quite enough to do, without putting your fingers into other folks' pies. 1659,1886[see finger n. 3 c]. a1845Moore Fragm. Character xi, Whatever was the best pye going, In that Ned..had his finger. 1921L. Strachey Queen Victoria iii. 93 Her uncle Leopold had apparently determined..that her cousin Albert ought to be her husband. That was very like her uncle Leopold, who wanted to have a finger in every pie. 1924A. Christie Poirot Investigates i. 19 What I do now is for my own satisfaction—the satisfaction of Hercule Poirot! Decidedly, I must have a finger in this pie. 1940N. Mitford Pigeon Pie iii. 57 Aristocrats are inclined to prefer Nazis while Jews prefer Bolshies. An old bourgeois like yourself..should keep your fingers out of both their pies. 1970G. Jackson Let. 17 Apr. in Soledad Brother (1971) 224 We don't want their culture. We don't want a piece of that pie. 1979Homes & Gardens June 90/2 One of the many pies he keeps a finger in is the Color Association of the USA.
d. Assets, proceeds, wealth, etc., considered as something to be apportioned or shared out (cf. cake n. 7 b).
1967Boston Sunday Herald 7 May iii. 14/4 The result of an Appellate Court victory..which cut Weymouth's total property valuation by $40 million to give the town a bigger slice of the sales tax pie. 1971Ink 12 June 7/4 The thousands of workers..are searching for ways to fight not only for a bigger portion of the capitalist pie but for a freer and more dignified life. 1978Washington Post 29 July d30/2 Although more than 50 million watches will be sold in the United States this year, there is no consensus on what piece of the pie digitals will get.
2. Applied to something resembling a pie. bran-pie, a tub full of bran with small articles hidden in it to be drawn out at random, at Christmas festivities, etc. See also clay-pie, dirt-pie, mud-pie.
1842J. W. Orderson Creol. ii. 14 The Jews..still withheld their unleavened pie..a simple crust covering a pretty round sum. 1873Gardner Hist. Jamaica 199 The governor's purse was called a pie. 1877Cassell's Family Mag. May 377/1 In the last division of the tent we had..a bran-pie... The bran-pie was an oblong washing-tub..filled with bran, in which were hidden..small articles. 1889Peel City Guardian 28 Dec. 7/4 Sometimes what is termed a ‘bran pie’ is employed..for storing the presents in. 1902Little Folks Jan. 54/2 Every single thing was bought, including the packets in the bran-pie. 1904Daily Chron. 27 Feb. 3/2 The bran-pie..is the receptacle of second-rate presents: gifts not quite showy enough to be displayed upon a Christmas tree. 1916Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 4 July 4/4 All sorts of seasonable refreshments will be served and the blue ribbon girls will have an attraction in the form of a bran pie. 1931V. Woolf Waves 236, I think more disinterestedly than I could when I was young and must dig furiously like a child rummaging in a bran-pie to discover myself.
3. a. Applied to a collection of things made up into a heap; spec. a shallow pit, or heap of potatoes or other roots, covered with straw, earth, etc. for storing and protection from frost; also, a heap of manure stacked for maturing. local.
1526in Househ. Ord. (1790) 227 Item, that the Pye of Coales be abridged to the one halfe that theretofore had been served. 1791Trans. Soc. Arts IX. 42 [The potatoes] were taken up, and a large pye made of them, which is laying them in a heap and covering them with straw. 1848Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. IX. ii. 514 Mangolds..stored ‘in pies’ on the level surface. 1886S.W. Linc. Gloss. s.v., Potatoes or other roots placed in a hole,..against the winter,..are said to be ‘pied down’ or..‘in pie’. 1887Daily Tel. 4 Apr. 2 Making ‘pies’ of the green fodder just as dung pies are made.
b. Austral. (See quot. 19601.)
1960Times Rev. Industry Jan. 103/1 A pie is a combination of wool buyers who do not bid against one another at wool sales, then divide the wool purchased by members of the group. 1960Sydney Morning Herald 25 Mar. 7 He said he had known since 1945 that ‘pies’ were operating. 1966Baker Austral. Lang. (ed. 2) iii. 58 The Australian public became aware in 1958 that wool-buying was not always a straightforward operation... Some buyers were combining into pies (also called rings) to bid and then share purchases, so that competition was reduced.
4. fig.
a. Something to be eagerly appropriated; a prize, a treat; a bribe. Also used in comparative phrases: (as) good (nice, sweet, etc.) as pie. slang (orig. U.S.).
1857‘Dow, Jr.’ Dow's Patent Sermons 1st Ser. 21 Let her alone and in five minutes the storm will be over, and she as good as pie again. 1884‘Mark Twain’ Huck. Finn ii. 15 You're always as polite as pie to them. Ibid. v. 34 So he took him to his own house, and dressed him up clean and nice,..and was just old pie to him, so to speak. 1887R. T. Cooke Happy Dodd xvii. 178 We've been awful good; good as pie, hain't we? 1888W. F. Cody Story of Wild West 531, I wanted to reach Fort Larned before daylight, in order to avoid if possible the Indians, to whom it would have been ‘pie’ to have caught me there on foot. 1891Harper's Mag. Sept. 579/1 Ain't he as polite as pie to her? 1895Outing (U.S.) XXVI. 436/1 Green dogs are pie for him [the racoon]. 1902Westm. Gaz. 16 June 3/1 Sometimes he is ‘pie’ for the cartoonist to an unfortunate extent. 1922Joyce Ulysses 309 See him of a Sunday with his little concubine of a wife, and she wagging her tail up the aisle of the chapel,..nice as pie, doing the little lady. 1933E. O'Neill Ah, Wilderness! iv. iii. 151, I ran into him upstreet this afternoon and he was meek as pie. 1939J. Steinbeck Grapes of Wrath vi. 65 Well, the guy that come aroun' talked nice as pie. 1952M. Laski Village vi. 109 She was as sweet as pie, said she was awfully sorry. 1958Listener 11 Sept. 388/3 When foreign dignitaries come from all corners of the world to pay their respects to me..I am as nice as pie. 1974P. De Vries Glory of Hummingbird (1975) xviii. 265 People were wonderful, nice as pie, glad to see me fallen. 1978F. Weldon Praxis xxiv. 256 She's very stubborn. Sweet as pie just so long as she's doing exactly what she wants.
b. Political favour or patronage. U.S. slang.
1910Richmond (Virginia) Weekly Times-Dispatch 17 Aug. 10 Representative Slemp was looked upon as the dispenser of the patronage in Virginia because of the promise of the President that he would allow the pie to be handed out by the men who did the fighting. 1916N.Y. Times 12 May 10/4 Take your tribute, but buy national defense with it, don't waste it in ‘pork’ and ‘pie’ and Populist lunacies!
c. Something easily accomplished or dealt with, a ‘cinch’; spec. in phr. easy (simple, etc.) as pie. slang (orig. U.S.). Cf. pie in the sky.
In some uses not clearly distinguishable from sense 4 a.
1889Outing Nov. 151/2, I thought it would just be pie for me to buy him, and take him through the ‘bushes’... (The ‘bushes’, you know, means the country fairs.) 1905N. Davis Northerner 93 It will be just—what was it you said—pie?—pie for them, won't it. 1919Wodehouse Coming of Bill (1920) i. v. 54 This Kid Mitchell was looked on as a coming champ in those days... I guess I looked pie to him. 1923E. Wallace Missing Million xx. 161 Murder was cream pie to Tod. 1925Wodehouse Sam the Sudden xix. 156 ‘How do you propose to make your entry?’..‘Easy as pie. Odd-job man... They always want odd-job men.’ 1937D. L. Sayers Busman's Honeymoon xii. 210 He's knocked out... Simple as pie. No cutting or stealing keys or hiding blunt instruments or telling lies. 1948J. B. Priestley Linden Tree i. 39 It's as simple as pie. 1959C. Bush Case of Careless Thief vii. 87 It's in the bag... Everything we wanted and easy as pie. 1967G. F. Fiennes I tried to run a Railway iii. 26 In the current work York was pie compared with Cambridge. 1972Wodehouse Pearls, Girls & Monty Bodkin iv. 53 Interesting Llewellyn in Silver River would be pie, but I'd also have to interest her, and she's not the right woman for that.
5. attrib. and Comb., as pie-baker, pie-eater, pie-feast, pie-fork, pie-gaudy (gaudy n. 5), pie-knife, pie-maker, pie-meat, pie-pan, pie-paste, pie-plate, pie shell, pie-shop, pie-tin; pie-biter, (a) U.S., one who has a fondness for pies; fig. (in sense 4 b), one who takes part in political patronage; (b) Austral. slang = pie-eater (b); pie-board, a board on which pies are made, baked, or carried; pie-card U.S. slang, (a) a meal ticket; one who begs for a meal; (b) a union-card; the holder of a union-card; also attrib.; pie-cart N.Z. (see quot. 1922); pie chart = pie diagram; pie-counter U.S., a counter at which pies are sold; fig., a source of grants or favours (see sense 4 b); pie diagram, a circle divided by radii into sectors whose areas are proportional to the relative magnitudes or frequencies of a set of items; pie-dish, the deep dish in which a pie is made; pie-eater, (a) someone who eats pies; (b) Austral. slang, someone of no importance, a ‘small-timer’; also, a fool or simpleton; so pie-eating ppl. adj.; pie-funnel, a support for a pie-crust during cooking; pie-house, a house at which pies are sold, a pie-shop; pie-lass, a girl who sells pies; pie-melon, † (a) U.S., a melon used for pies (obs.); (b) Austral., a variety of watermelon, Citrullus lanatus; pie-plant, any plant yielding fruit, etc. used for pies; spec. (U.S.) garden rhubarb; also locally applied to the wild Rumex hymenosepalus, which is similarly used (Cent. Dict.); also attrib.; pie-wagon U.S. slang (see quot. 1960); † pie-wife, pie-woman, a woman who sells pies. See also pie-crust, pieman.
1379in Riley Memorials (1868) 432 *Pie bakere. c1440Promp. Parv. 395/2 Pye baker, cereagius. 1594R. Ashley tr. Loys le Roy 28 b, Prepared and dressed by Cookes and pybakers.
1868Daily Territorial Enterprise (Virginia City, Nevada) 2 Apr. 3/1 Through these same [April fool] doughnuts many a lunch-eater and *pie-biter came to grief. 1902O. Wister Virginian ix. 104 He held out to his pony a slice of bread matted with sardines, which the pony expertly accepted. ‘You're a plumb pie-biter, you Monte,’ he continued. 1908in W. R. Hunt North of 53° (1974) xxvi. 225 Persons interested in other points, and paid knockers and piebiters may pound and hammer until their auditors are deafened. 1911E. Dyson Benno 144 He was that angry with the South pie-biters, he didn't care what 'appened to 'em. 1938K. Douthitt Romance & Dim Trails 106 [He was] better known over the northwest and in camp life as Pie Biter, because he was very fond of pie.
1709Brit. Apollo II. No. 70. 3/2 The Puny Author who supplies still The Cooks, and on their *Pye-boards lies still. 1844Dickens Mart. Chuz. xxxix, She tripped downstairs into the kitchen for the flour, then for the pie-board.
1909W. G. Davenport Butte & Montana beneath X-Ray 56 Say, on the dead level, Andy, couldn't you let me have a lonely ten spot?.. Say, Andy, you've just got to jar loose with five bucks for my *pie card is so full of holes it looks like a piece of mosquito bar. 1929Amer. Speech IV. 343 Pie card, a union card used to obtain food or lodging. 1931‘D. Stiff’ Milk & Honey Route 211 Pie card, one who hangs around and lives on a remittance man or some other person with money. 1945Seafarers' Log 25 May 2/1 The Commie stooges and pie-cards kick us around. 1948Mencken Amer. Lang. Suppl. II. 678 Pie-card, a union card used as a credential in begging. 1960New Left Rev. 26 Sept. 41/1 The retired..comfortably fixed pie-card artists of every lost..cause of the labour and radical movements. 1973C. Rubin Log 64 All of them phony, pie-card officials who sit on their big fat asses and twiddle their thumbs.
1922C. G. Turner Happy Wanderer 37 We drifted down..to the *pie-cart (coffee-stall, in your speech). 1949D. M. Davin Roads from Home 70 Somebody having a feed at the pie-cart. 1954Numbers Nov. 23 A poky..kind of joint, just one degree better than a pie-cart. 1963Weekly News (Auckland) 5 June 37/2 The Mussons..were many years in the piecart business in Christchurch. 1973A. Holden Girl on Beach 160 We went down town to the all-night pie-cart and bought masses of pies and chips..and drove up to the top of Mount Victoria.
1922A. C. Haskell Graphic Charts in Business xiv. 75 Because the circle, divided..into sections, resembles a pie which has been cut in the usual manner, the Circular Percentage Chart is sometimes referred to as the ‘*pie chart’. 1972Pie chart [see line graph s.v. line n.2 32]. 1977Lancet 17 Dec. 1264/2 There is neither graph nor histogram nor pie chart to help the reader.
1903N.Y. Times 16 Dec. 3 When his constituents asked him why he could not secure more routes [for free postal delivery] the only reply he could make was that he could not get up to the *pie counter. 1912M. Nicholson Hoosier Chron. 470 I'm in the ranks of the patriots and not looking for the pie counter. 1921H. Secrist Statistics in Business v. 65 *Pie-diagram showing the distribution of the total stock of hams, bacon and shoulders, reported August 31, 1917. 1954Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. XLV. 149 The book is..well produced with numerous pie-diagrams, bar diagrams and other pictographic devices. 1979Jrnl. R. Soc. Arts July 493/2 Whether they be dancers, writers, poets, actresses, painters or musicians they are largely unproductive of material which can be categorized, computed, stored, programmed, evaluated or turned into pie diagrams.
1859Jephson Brittany iv. 38 Scanty ablutions of the morning in my *pie-dish. 1864Soc. Science Rev. 37 A pie-dish and decanter take the place of jug and bason at the washing stand.
1904Daily Chron. 12 Sept. 4/6 New Englanders, those champion *pie-eaters of the world. 1953Baker Australia Speaks 134 Pie-eater.., a small-time crook. 1953K. Tennant Joyful Condemned xviii. 166 He's one of those big he-men that go sneaking around the park waiting to snitch some chromo's handbag. Just a pie-eater. 1966Sunday Tel. (Sydney) 22 May 25/2 The Australian appetite for pies has even added to our slang with the term ‘pie eater’. Once meaning a small time crook, it is now used as a derogatory expression, close in meaning to ‘a dill’. 1975Sun (Sydney) 10 Jan. 52/7 A bunch of pie-eaters. Excuse me if I find an expression from my old mate, the late Siddie Barnes, but that's what the English team has turned out to be.
1949L. Glassop Lucky Palmer 96 The trouble is, Mr. Hughes, you're too good for the *pie-eating bookmakers round these parts. You bet too well for them, Mr. Hughes.
c1550Lusty Juventus in Hazl. Dodsley II. 78 Will you go to the *pie-feast?
1887C. B. George 40 Yrs. on Rail ix. 187 An exquisite set of *pie forks, of English make, and valued at seventy-five dollars.
1910–11Junior Army & Navy Stores Catal. 1304 *Pie funnel. 1926S. E. Nash Cooking Craft xx. 186 Pile [meat] up in the centre to support the pastry, if there is not sufficient meat use an egg cup or pie funnel. 1960Woman 23 Apr. 3/3 Use an empty salt cellar... It works as well as a proper pie funnel.
1659Heylin Certamen Epist. 136 The suppressing of so many Gaudies, and *Pie-Gaudies, to the destruction of the hospitality and charity of the noble foundation.
1589Rider Bibl. Schol. 1087 A *pie house, artocrearium.
1875Mrs. Stowe We & our Neighbors liii. 474 Of course the reader knows that there were the usual amount of berry-spoons, and *pie-knives, and crumb-scrapers.
1836–48B. D. Walsh Aristoph., Knights iii. i, Why, that he'll seize on the *pie-lass, And rob her and render her pieless.
c1450Dict. Garlande in Wright Voc. 127 Pastillarii [gloss] *pye-makyers.
1598Epulario C ij b, Mince it..like *Pie meat.
1860Trans. Mich. Agric. Soc. 1859 X. 623 Best *pie melon, H. J. Young..$0.50. 1882W. D. Hay Brighter Britain! I. vii. 223 We grow large quantities of melons—..rock-melons, Spanish melons, pie-melons and so on. 1945[see choko]. 1965Austral. Encycl. III. 140/1 Some introduced cucurbits have become troublesome weeds, notably the..pie melon (Citrullus vulgaris); colocynth..and squirting cucumber. 1978J. A. Michener Chesapeake 833 A pie-melon was a kind of gourd raised along the edges of cornfields, and..it produced one of the world's great pies.
1838Youth's Mag. (N.Y.) July 91 Half a dozen roots of the *pie-plant (rhubarb) will furnish abundant materials for pies and tarts. 1847Webster, Pie-plant, Pie-rhubarb, the garden rhubarb, used as a substitute for apples in making pies. 1864Lowell Fireside Trav., Cambridge, His pie plants..blanched under barrels, each in his little hermitage, a vegetable Certosa. 1884E. W. Nye Baled Hay 207 Afterward pulverize and spread over the pie plant bed. 1894Harper's Mag. May 931/2 There is one old soul who especially loves rhubarb pies,..and it is she who remembers me and my row of pie-plant. 1952J. Steinbeck East of Eden xvii. 159 He..chatted about the pieplant roots. 1976Hortus Third (L. H. Bailey Hortorium) 967/2 Rhubarb is a strong, hardy, Old World perennial grown for the thick leaf stalks, which are cooked fresh in early spring for their agreeable acid flavor. It is also known as pie plant.
1598Florio Worlde of Wordes 394/2 Statccia [sic], a cake, a tarte. Also any flat thing or *pye plate. 1653R. Verney Let. May in M. M. Verney Mem. (1894) III. iv. 113, I presume there are dishes, pyplates, candlesticks. 1741Compl. Fam.-Piece i. ii. (ed. 3) 105 Cover your Bason with a Pye-plate. 1895Montgomery Ward & Co. Catal. Spring & Summer 431/3, Agate iron pie plates. 1948Good Housek. Cookery Bk. 410 Place the round of pastry neatly and evenly on a flat pie plate. 1978E. Tidyman Table Stakes ii. iii. 187 A broad Irish face as open as a pie plate.
1935Motion Picture Nov. 79/2 Pour into baked *pie shell. 1976Turgeon & Birmingham All Amer. Cookbk. (1977) 206/2 Put the pie shell in the refrigerator while rolling out the top crust.
1898*Pie-wagon [see moving-van s.v. moving vbl. n. 5]. 1904‘No. 1500’ Life in Sing Sing 257/1 Pie wagon, patrol wagon. 1960Wentworth & Flexner Dict. Amer. Slang 388/2 Pie wagon, a police truck used to transport arrested persons to jail; a Black Maria.
1593Nashe Four Lett. Confut. Wks. (Grosart) II. 283 To..cosen poore victuallers and *pie-wiues of Doctours cheese and puddinges.
1817J. Evans Excurs. Windsor, etc. 343 An old *Pie-woman carried them provisions, but never saw them. [Note. Prof. Skeat suggests ‘from the miscellaneous nature of its (i.e. the dish's) contents’ which might recall the black and white or piebald appearance of the bird; others have thought of the habit which the magpie has of picking up and forming accumulations of miscellaneous articles. In this connexion, the similarity between the forms of the words haggis and haggess (F. agace, agasse) magpie, has also been pointed out. The quotations for the word afford no light, exc. that in one place in a late 14th c. L. poem Modus cenandi (Furnivall, Babees Book, ii. 36) l. 51, ‘sint inter fercula pice, Pastilli cum fartulis’, appears to mean, ‘let there be served between the dishes, pies, pasties’ as if the writer identified pie, the dish, with pica the pie or magpie. On the other hand, in two early 14th c. quotations the Eng. word is used in Latin context, as if not identified with pica.] ▪ III. pie, pye, n.3 Now only Hist.
[The Eng. word answering to med.L. pica; thus both in L. and Eng. identical in form with the name of the bird: see pie1, and pica1.]
1. A collection of rules, adopted in the pre-Reformation Church, to show how to deal (under each of the 35 possible variations in the date of Easter) with the concurrence of more than one office on the same day, accurately indicating the manner of commemorating, or of putting off till another time, the Saints' days, etc., occurring in the ever-changing times of Lent, Easter, Whitsuntide, and the Octave of the Trinity. (Cf. Blades Caxton, 1882, 240.)
c1477Caxton Advertisement (Broadside), If it plese ony man spirituel or temporel to bye ony pyes of two and thre comemoracions of salisburi vse enpryntid after the forme of this present lettre whiche ben wel and truly correct, late hym come to westmonester in to the almonesrye at the reed pale and he shal haue them good chepe. 1498Will of Thomson (Somerset Ho.), My boke callid a pie. 1507Yatton Churchw. Acc. (Som. Rec. Soc.) 129 Payd for a Masboke and a pye..xjs. vid. 1548–9(Mar.) Bk. Com. Prayer Pref., The nombre and hardnes of the rules called the pie, and the manifolde chaunginges of the seruice, was the cause, yt to turne the boke onlye, was so hard and intricate a matter, that many times, there was more busines to fynd out what should be read, then to read it when it was founde out. 1549Act 3 & 4 Edw. VI, c. 10 §1 All Books called..Manuals, Legends, Pies, Portuasses, Primers..shall be..abolished. a1568R. Ascham Scholem. ii. (Arb.) 136 If he..could turne his Portresse and pie readilie. 1852Hook Ch. Dict. (1871) 585 The pie was the table used before the Reformation to find out the service for the day. It may be referred to the Greek πίναξ or πινακίδιον. But the Latin word is pica, which perhaps came from the ignorance of the friars, who have thrust many barbarous words into the liturgies. 1879Marquis of Bute tr. Roman Breviary I. p. xii, As to anything else, see the Chapters of the Pye treating specially of each detail.
b. Hence app. cock and pie, q.v.
†2. (Usually pye book.) An alphabetical index to rolls and records. Obs.
There are ‘Pye Books’ to Indictments extending as far back as 1660; but there is nothing to show when the term first came into use. It was in use in the Court of King's Bench early in the 18th century. It was also pretty generally used in the Courts of the Palatinate of Lancaster, the Indexes to the Affidavits, Declarations, and Sessional Papers being each styled ‘Pye Books’ (J. J. Cartwright, Sec. Publ. Rec. Office).
1788Chambers' Cycl. (ed. Rees) s.v., In much the same sense the term was used by officers of civil courts, who called the calendars or alphabetical catalogues directing to the names and things contained in the rolls and records of their courts the Pyes.
▪ IV. pie, n.4 Printing.|paɪ|
Also 7 py, 7–9 pye, (U.S.) pi.
[Origin obscure: supposed by some to be a transferred use of pie n.2, in reference to its miscellaneous contents; others think of pie n.3, and the unreadable aspect of a page of the pie.]
A mass of type mingled indiscriminately or in confusion, such as results from the breaking down of a forme of type.
1659Howell Vocab. li. (Printing terms), A Corrector, a proof, a revise,..pye all sorts of letter mixed, Correctore, &c. 1683Moxon Mech. Exerc., Printing 370 Breaking the orderly Succession the Letters stood in, in a Line, Page, or Form, &c. and mingling the Letters together, which mingled Letters is called Py. 1771Franklin Autobiog. Wks. 1887 I. 144 Having impos'd my forms..one of them by accident broke, and two pages reduced to pi, I immediately distributed and compos'd it over again before I went to bed. 1845Carlyle Cromwell I. Introd. ii. 12 This same Dictionary..gone to pie, as we may call it. 1847Webster, Pi [app. after Franklin]. 1882J. Southward Pract. Print. (1884) 80 If composed matter gets..into a state of confusion, it is ‘pie’.
b. transf. A disintegrated and confused mass; a jumble, medley, confusion, chaos; a ‘mess’.
1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. II. ii. iv, Your.. Arrangement going all (as the Typographers say of set types, in a similar case) rapidly to pie! 1841Catlin N. Amer. Ind. II. xli. 53 We were thrown into ‘pie’ (as printers would say) in an instant of the most appalling alarm. 1870Daily News 30 Nov., It was the merest luck..that the bones of the kings were not made inextricable ‘pie’ of. 1888Mrs. E. Lynn Linton in Fortn. Rev. Oct. 532 Witness the ‘pie’ he made of his finances. 1897Spectator 30 Jan. 162/2 To make pie of the European arrangements for securing peace.
▪ V. ‖ pie, n.5|paɪ|
Also pai, pi.
[a. Hindī, Marāṭhī, etc. pā'ī, from Skr. pad, padī, quarter, being ‘originally, it would seem, the fourth part of an anna, and in fact identical with pice’ (Yule).]
The smallest Anglo-Indian copper coin, the twelfth part of an anna; before the depreciation of the rupee in 1899, about one-eighth of a penny.
1859Lang Wand. India 69 He would tell you the interest due on such sums as three rupees, five annas, and seven pie, for twenty-one days, at forty-one three-fourth per cent. 1879Mrs. A. G. F. E. James Ind. Househ. Managem. 49 The copper coins—1 anna = 4 pice. 1 pice = 3 pie. 1883F. M. Crawford Mr. Isaacs xii. 261 Several coins, both rupees and pais. 1904Mission Field June 64 The charge of a small fee, six pies (one cent) for the first prescription.
▪ VI. pie
variant of pee Obs., kind of coat or jacket.
▪ VII. pie, a.1
[a. F. pie, fem. of OF. pi, pis, piu, pif:—L. pi-us pious.]
Pious.
In occasional use as a variant of pi a.
c1450Mirour Saluacioun 786 Sho was ouer craft to telle humble pie [v.r. mercifull] and devoute. 1932C. S. Lewis in Essays & Stud. XVII. 71 She is an admirable person. The only trouble is that she is rather pie. 1957M. A. Jeeves St. Thomas Becket i. 13 Some of the more lugubrious sects' offsprings from the Reformation are also responsible for the eulogizing of ‘pie’ types of people.
▪ VIII. pie, a.2 N.Z. slang.|paɪ|
[ad. Maori pai good.]
(See quots.) Cf. half-pie a.
1941Baker N.Z. Slang vi. 56 To be pie at (or on), to be expert or efficient at something, is another phrase of wide use in this country. It has been derived from the Maori pai, good. 1943Amer. Speech XVIII. 93 ‘To be pie on’ (= to be very good at) seems to be derived from the Maori pai ana.
▪ IX. † pie, v.1 Obs. nonce-wd.
[f. pie n.1]
trans. To repeat like a magpie.
1657J. Watts Dipper Sprinkled 74 Yea, to Pie and Parrat out our Tongues, Degrees, and Learning of the University.
▪ X. pie, v.2 local.
Also pye; vbl. n. pying.
[f. pie n.2 3.]
trans. To put (potatoes, etc.) in a pit or heap and cover them with straw and earth, for storing and protection from frost.
1791Trans. Soc. Arts IX. 44 Weeding potatoes, getting them up, and pyeing them. 1817–18Cobbett Resid. U.S. (1822) 164 He may pie them [potatoes] in the garden..but he must not open the pie in frosty weather. 1845Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. V. ii. 326 This system of pyeing turnips is a very common one in Norfolk. 1886[see pie n.2 3].
▪ XI. pie, v.3 Printing.
[f. pie n.4]
trans. To make (type) into ‘pie’; to mix or jumble up indiscriminately.
1870[see pied2]. 1889Daily News 17 June 7 (Advt.), The..delay..in printing offices, caused by what is technically called ‘pyeing’. 1893Linotype Company's Prospectus, In the economy of this machine... To pye matter is impossible. 1903Brit. & Col. Printer 19 Nov. 15/4 Nearly all the cases are empty and those that have anything in are pied. |