pie

Betekenis

Noun

1. A type of pastry that consists of an outer crust and a filling.
2. Any of various other, non-pastry dishes that maintain the general concept of a shell with a filling.
3. A pizza.
4. A paper plate covered in cream, shaving foam or custard that is thrown or rubbed in someone’s face for comical purposes, to raise money for charity, or as a form of political protest; a custard pie; a cream pie.
5. The whole of a wealth or resource, to be divided in parts.
6. An especially badly bowled ball.
7. A pie chart.
8. (informal) Something very easy; a piece of cake.
9. (slang) The vulva.
10. (slang) A kilogram of drugs, especially cocaine.

Verb

1. To hit in the face with a pie, either for comic effect or as a means of protest (see also pieing).
2. To go around (a corner) in a guarded manner.
3. (slang) To ignore (someone).

Verb

Alternative form of pi (“to spill or mix printing type”)

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/paɪ/

Etymologie

From Middle English pye, pie, pey, perhaps from Old English *pīe (“pastry”) (compare Old English pīe, pēo (“insect, bug”)), attested in early Middle English piehus (“bakery”, literally “pie-house”) c. 1199. Relation to Medieval Latin pica, pia (“pie, pastry”) is unclear, as there are no similar terms found in any Romance languages; therefore, like Irish pióg (“pie”), the Latin term may have been simply borrowed from the English.
Some sources state the word comes from Latin pīca (“magpie, jay”) (from the idea of the many ingredients put into pies likened to the tendency of magpies to bring a variety of objects back to their nests), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peyk- (“woodpecker; magpie”), though this has its controversies. However, if so, then it is a doublet of pica.