Pie

What “Pie” means

Noun

1. 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.)
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.

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. To ignore (someone).

Noun

1. Magpie.

Noun

1. A former low-denomination coin of northern India.

Where the word comes from

From Middle English pye, pie, pey (“baked dish, filled pastry”), possibly attested earlier (c. 1199) in the surname Piehus (“pie-house?”). Further origin uncertain. Relation to Middle English pie, pye (“magpie”) has been suggested due to correspondences between other similar foods and the names of birds (compare haggis (“Scottish dish”) and haggess (“magpie”); and chewet (“meat pie”) and chewet (“chough, jackdaw”); however, the baked dish may instead be named after a creator with the surname Pie, a common name at the time. The surname is ultimately derived from the bird above, and thus from Old French pie, from Latin pīca (“magpie”). If true, then doublet of speight.

From Middle English pye, from Old French pie, from Latin pīca, feminine of pīcus (“woodpecker”). Doublet of pica and speight.

From Hindi पाई (pāī, “low-denomination coin”), from Sanskrit पादिका (pādikā, “foot, shoe”), from पाद (pāda, “foot, base, quarter”) + -इक (-ika, “-ic: forming adjectives”).

Business name ideas with “Pie”

Industries where “Pie” fits

We suggest this word for 2 business types and industries, including:

• Pizza Restaurant
• Limited-Service Restaurants