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We have found lemma(root) word of pies : pie.
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[pʌɪ], (Noun)
Definitions:
- a baked dish usually containing meat and vegetables or fruit and having a top and typically a base of pastry
(e.g: a meat pie)
Phrases:
- a piece of the pie
- as easy as pie
- as sweet as pie
- pie in the sky
Origin
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Middle English: probably the same word as pie, the various combinations of ingredients being compared to objects randomly collected by a magpie
[pʌɪ], (Noun)
Definitions:
- used in names of birds that resemble the magpie, especially in having black-and-white plumage, e.g. tree pie
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Origin
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Middle English: from Old French, from Latin pica ‘magpie’ (related to picus ‘green woodpecker’)
[pʌɪ], (Noun)
Definitions:
- a former monetary unit of India and Pakistan, equal to one twelfth of an anna
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Origin
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from Hindi pā'ī, from Sanskrit pada, padī ‘quarter’
[pʌɪ], (Noun)
Definitions:
- a confused mass of printers' type
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Origin
:
mid 17th century: origin uncertain; perhaps translating French pâté (see pâté)
[pʌɪ], (Verb)
Definitions:
- muddle up (type)
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Origin
:
mid 17th century: origin uncertain; perhaps translating French pâté (see pâté)
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