pie – English noun declension

English noun forms of pie

Noun: pie
Singularpie
Pluralpies; pie

Sample Sentences

  • The family had steak and kidney pie for dinner and cherry pie for dessert.
  • SATURNINUS: Go fetch them hither to us presently.
  • TITUS: Why, there they are, both baked in that pie,
  • Whereof their mother daintily hath fed,
  • Eating the flesh that she herself hath bred. [c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:]
  • Shepherd's pie is made of mince covered with mashed potato.
  • It is easier to get along when everyone, more or less, is getting ahead. But when the pie is shrinking, social groups are more likely to turn on each other. [2010 December 4, Evan Thomas, “Why It’s Time to Worry”, in Newsweek:]
  • Pies are best for comparing the components of only one or two totals. [1986, Carolyn Sorensen, Henry J. Stock, Department of Education Computer Graphics Guide, page 8:]
  • Programmers haven't exactly been wild about certain Microsoft policies — such as the price of the OS/2 developer's kit or the fib about how Microsoft Windows code would be pie to translate to the Presentation Manager. [1989, PC Mag, volume 8, number 5, page 91:]
  • "Yeah, take it off!" "SHOW US YOUR PIE!" The brunette opened the catch on her G-string and let the sequinned cloth slip down, teasing them with it. [1981, William Kotzwinkle, Jack in the Box:]
  • Yeah, some guys like to eat the old hairy pie. Women, too, or so I've heard. [2010, W. A. Moltinghorne, Magnolia Park, page 238:]
  • Did fed time outta town pie flipper / Turn Cristal into a crooked-I sipper [1997 January 3, “Can't Nobody Hold Me Down”performed by Sean Combs ft. Mase:]
  • My weed smoke is my lye, a ki of coke is a pie / When I'm lifted I'm high, with new clothes on I'm fly [[1998 October 18, “Ebonics”performed by Big L:]
  • I love the cutie pies, never the zootie pies [1999 July 13, “Discipline”performed by Gang Starr ft. Total:]

Etymology

1. From Middle English pye, pie, pey (“baked dish, filled pastry”), possibly attested earlier (c. 1199) in the surname Piehus (“pie-house?”). Further origin uncertain.
2. Relation to Middle English pie, pye (“magpie”) has been suggested due to correspondences between other similar foods and the names of birds (compare haggis (“Scottish dish”) and haggess (“magpie”); and chewet (“meat pie”) and chewet (“chough, jackdaw”); however, the baked dish may instead be named after a creator with the surname Pie, a common name at the time.
3. The surname is ultimately derived from the bird above, and thus from Old French pie, from Latin pīca (“magpie”). If true, then doublet of speight. See: Middle English Nouns 'pye', Latin Nouns 'pīca'.

Verbs referencing "pie"

Finnish Nouns pai, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns pai, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns pai, Swedish Nouns paj.