pie´like´

pie¹ «py», noun.

1. fruit, meat, vegetables, or other ingredients enclosed in pastry and baked in a round, flat dish or pan: »

apple pie, chicken pie.

2. a round layer cake with a filling, as of cream, custard, or jelly: »

Boston cream pie.

3. U.S. the sum total of income, costs, or other figure, with reference to the portions into which it may be divided, such as on a pie chart: »

Transportation is that slice of the cost pie often overlooked by management when it wants to cut costs (Wall Street Journal).

4. U.S. Slang. something quite easy or desirable: »

easy as pie.

╂[Middle English pye, origin uncertain]

–pie´like´, adjective.

pie² «py», noun.

= magpie. (Cf. ↑magpie)

╂[< Old French pie < Latin pīca]

pie³ «py», noun, transitive verb, pied, pie|ing.

= pi². (Cf. ↑pi)

pie⁴ «py», noun.

a book of rules for finding the particulars of the service for the day, as used in England before the Reformation. Also, pye.

╂[Middle English pye, perhaps abbreviation of Medieval Latin pica pica¹]

pie⁵ «py», noun.

a bronze coin of India, equal to ¹/₁₂ of an anna.

╂[Anglo-Indian < Hindi and Marathi pāī < Sanskrit padī, or pad quarter]