n.
1 a baked dish of meat, fish, fruit, etc., usu. with a top and base of pastry.
2 anything resembling a pie in form (a mud pie).
Phrases and idioms:
easy as pie very easy. pie chart a circle divided into sectors to represent relative quantities. pie-eater Austral. sl. a person of little account. pie-eyed sl. drunk. pie in the sky an unrealistic prospect of future happiness after present suffering; a misleading promise.
Etymology: ME, perh. = PIE(2) f. miscellaneous contents compared to objects collected by a magpie
2.
n. archaic 1 a magpie.
2 a pied animal.
Etymology: ME f. OF f. L pica
3.
n. & v. (US pi)
—n.
1 a confused mass of printers' type.
2 chaos.
—v.tr. (pieing) muddle up (type).
Etymology: perh. transl. F P&AC.T&EA. = PIE(1)
4.
n. hist. a former monetary unit of India equal to one-twelfth of an anna.
Etymology: Hind. etc. pa' i f. Skr. pad, padi quarter
Useful english dictionary. 2012.