单词 | pie |
释义 | pie pie1 —pielike, adj. /puy/, n. 1. a baked food having a filling of fruit, meat, pudding, etc., prepared in a pastry-lined pan or dish and often topped with a pastry crust: apple pie; meat pie. 2. a layer cake with a filling of custard, cream jelly, or the like: chocolate cream pie. 3. a total or whole that can be divided: They want a bigger part of the profit pie. 4. an activity or affair: He has his finger in the political pie too. 5. pizza. 6. easy as pie, extremely easy or simple. 7. nice as pie, extremely well-behaved, agreeable, or the like: The children were nice as pie. 8. pie in the sky, a. the illusory prospect of future benefits: Political promises are often pie in the sky. b. a state of perfect happiness; utopia: to promise pie in the sky. [1275-1325; ME, of obscure orig.] pie2 /puy/, n. magpie. [1200-50; ME < OF < L pica, akin to picus woodpecker] pie3 /puy/, n. , v.t. , pied, pieing. pi2. pie4 /puy/, n. (in England before the Reformation) a book of ecclesiastical rules for finding the particulars of the service for the day. Also, pye. [1470-80; trans. of L pica PIE2; the allusion is obscure; cf. PICA1] pie5 /puy/, n. a former bronze coin of India, the 12th part of an anna. Cf. naya paisa, paisa, pice. [1855-60; < Marathi pa'i lit., a fourth] |
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