pie
/paɪ/ verb C2- To hit in the face with a pie, either for comic effect or as a means of protest (see also pieing). · I'd like to see someone pie the chairman of the board.
- To go around (a corner) in a guarded manner.
He/she/it pies · Past pied · Past participle pied · -ing form pieing
Verb forms
- Base form
- pie
- He/she/it
- pies
- Past
- pied
- Past participle
- pied
- -ing form
- pieing
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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Some are pied with ev'ry hue,
The bird-trap was quite empty, as he had caught nothing, and he had to kill a pied Partridge, which he had tamed for a decoy.
And most people when they put a pie in the oven to warm up for dinner take it out and eat it when it gets hot instead of leaving it to be burned to a crisp.
“I passed by his garden, and marked, with one eye, How the Owl and the Panther were sharing a pie—”
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