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pies

The correct spelling is pies.

How to pronounce pies

/paɪz/
verb

IPA: /paɪz/

Say it like: Pee-s

The correct spelling is pies. To spill or mix printing type. For example: "The family had steak and kidney pie for dinner and cherry pie for dessert."

Usage Examples

The family had steak and kidney pie for dinner and cherry pie for dessert.

Shepherd's pie is made of mince covered with mashed potato.

I'd like to see someone pie the chairman of the board.

Meanings

verb

  1. 1.To spill or mix printing type.
  2. 2.To hit in the face with a pie, either for comic effect or as a means of protest (see also pieing).
  3. 3.To go around (a corner) in a guarded manner.
  4. 4.(of printing types) To reduce to confusion; to jumble.

noun

  1. 1.A type of pastry that consists of an outer crust and a filling.
  2. 2.Any of various other, non-pastry dishes that maintain the general concept of a shell with a filling.
  3. 3.(Northeastern US) A pizza.
  4. 4.The whole of a wealth or resource, to be divided in parts.
  5. 5.(letterpress) A disorderly mess of spilt type.

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