| 释义 |
pie eaternoun1A person who eats pies: the crusts are so flaky and delicious, that pie eaters around the world will rejoice...- A man lunges at him with a plateful of shaving cream, and the pie eater is now facing criminal charges.
- It's perplexed pie eaters for years: why does pastry go soggy in the microwave?
- The pie eater in the overalls, his fingers still smelling of pecans, picked up the bass player and nearly squeezed the breath out of him.
1.1 informal, derogatory An overweight person: a pot-bellied pie eater...- The hair makes him look fatter, and he already looks like a pie eater.
- That wee fat pie eater has been duped as well.
- What a horrible little hypocritical man the fat pie eater is.
1.2Australian informal A person of no importance: I’m just a pie eater, mate...- They will find an emotive and self-interested way to strike a chord with the pie eaters of Australia.
- I will have to excuse myself—the little pie eater just showed up.
- By the time I leave town, word will be out that there's a weird pie eater on the loose.
1.3British informal, often derogatory A person from Wigan in NW England: the fans needed no winding up when the pie eaters were coming to town...- What would the Wigan pie eater have done in such circumstances?
- Just eight miles separate them from Wigan's pie eaters!
- Where I'm from, we're known as pie eaters by the rest of the UK, so I've got a background in pies just culturally.
Popularly attributed to a miners' strike in 1926 when the Wigan miners were starved back to work before those in surrounding towns, and therefore forced metaphorically to eat 'humble pie' |