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pie

1[pahy]
–noun
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.

Origin:
1275–1325; ME, of obscure orig.


pielike, adjective
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pie  (3)
printers' slang for "a mass of type jumbled together" (also pi, pye), 1659, perhaps from pie (1) on notion of a "medley," or pie (2) (see pica).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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