pie

Meanings

Plural: pie, pies

Noun

dish baked in pastry-lined pan often with a pastry top
a prehistoric unrecorded language that was the ancestor of all Indo-European languages
A type of pastry that consists of an outer crust and a filling. (Savory pies are more popular in the UK and sweet pies are more popular in the US, so "pie" without qualification has different connotations in these dialects.)
Any of various other, non-pastry dishes that maintain the general concept of a shell with a filling.
A pizza.
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.
The whole of a wealth or resource, to be divided in parts.
An especially badly bowled ball.
A pie chart.
Something very easy; a piece of cake.
The vulva.
A kilogram of drugs, especially cocaine.
Magpie.
A former low-denomination coin of northern India.
Ellipsis of pie-dog (“an Indian breed, a stray dog in Indian contexts”).
A traditional Spanish unit of length, equivalent to about 27.9 cm.
Alternative form of pi (“metal type that has been spilled, mixed together, or disordered”).

Verb

To hit in the face with a pie, either for comic effect or as a means of protest (see also pieing).
To go around (a corner) in a guarded manner.
To ignore (someone).
Alternative form of pi (“to spill or mix printing type”).

Origin / Etymology

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.

Synonyms

foot, Proto-Indo European

Scrabble Score: 5

pie is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
pie is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
pie is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 6

pie is a valid Words With Friends word