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pot-pie Chiefly U.S.
[f. pot n.1 + pie n.2]
a. ‘A pie made by spreading the crust over the bottom and sides of a pot, and filling up the inside with meat, i.e. beef, veal, mutton, or fowls’ (Bartlett Dict. Amer.).
b. ‘A dish of stewed meat with pieces of steamed pastry or dumplings served in it; a fricassee of meat with dumplings’ (Cent. Dict.).
c. ‘Beef cut up into cubes, encased in dough and boiled in a pot’ (Eng. Dial. Dict.).
1823F. Cooper Pioneers i, The snow-birds are flying round your own door, where you may..shoot enough for a pot-pie any day. 18..Carleton New Purchase I. 181 (Bartlett) An enormous pot-pie,..piping hot, graced our centre, overpowering, with its fragrance and steam, the odors and vapors of all other meats; and pot-pie was the wedding dish of the country, par excellence!.. What pot could have contained the pie is inconceivable. 1883P. E. Gibbons in Harper's Mag. Apr. 658/2, I suppose it resembles chicken pot pie. 1895Newcastle Daily Jrnl. 18 Feb. (E.D.D.), Four hundred pot pies and as many loaves of bread were distributed to poor people. 1906Amer. Illustr. Mag. Feb. 465/1, I was out huntin' for squirrels to make a potpie out of, for squirrel potpie's just lickin' good. 1933M. de la Roche Master of Jalna ii. 16 From there came the appetising smell of chicken pot-pie. 1935A. J. Cronin Stars look Down iii. ix. 564, I know you've had no breakfast. Are you above eating a pit pot-pie? 1940Mencken Happy Days iv. 59 The Rennert [Hotel] also offered an oyster pot-pie that had its points. 1975New Yorker 20 Oct. 31/3 ‘He just bein' prudent,’ said her father. ‘Some of them non-needy chirrun might sneak in there and grab some of that chicken potpie.’ |