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"PIES" is a plural of: pie. |
Date "PIES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references) |
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Dream Interpretation | To dream of eating pies, you will do well to watch your enemies, as they are planning to injure you. For a young woman to dream of making pies, denotes that she will flirt with men for pastime. She should accept this warning. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In cooking, a pie is a baked dish with a pastry shell that covers or completely contains a filling of meat, fish, vegetables, fruit, cheeses, creams, chocolate, custards or any other sweet or savoury ingredient you can think to put inside. Pies can be either 'one-crust', where the filling is placed in a dish and covered with a pastry top before baking, or 'two-crust', with the filling completely enclosed in the pastry shell. Some pies have only a bottom crust, generally if they have a sweet filling that does not require cooking. These bottom-crust-only pies may be known as tarts or tartlets. One example of a savoury bottom-crust-only pie is a quiche.Blind-baking is used to develop a crust's crispiness, and help it from getting soggy under the burden of a very liquidy filling. If the crust of the pie requires much more cooking than the chosen filling, it may also be blind-baked before the filling is added and then only briefly cooked or refrigerated.
Pie fillings range in size from tiny bitesize party pies or small tartlets, to single-serve pies (e.g. cornish pasty) and larger pies baked in a dish and eaten by the slice. The type of pasty used is matched to the filling, but it is generally either a butter-rich flaky or puff pastry, or a sturdy shortcrust pastry.
Small pies are a popular form of takeaway food in Australia, with the most ubiquitous brand being Four'n'twenty. Many bakeries and specialty stores sell gourmet pies for the most discriminating customer. A peculiarity of Adelaide cuisine is the Pie floater.
Like dumplings, many cultures have independently discovered pies as a useful and delicious way to utilize otherwise useless ingredients left over in the household.
Savoury pie recipes include:
Sweet pies include:
- Beef pot pie
- Cornish pasty
- Chicken pot pie
- Stargazy pie
- Steak and kidney pie
- Shepherd's pie
- Turkey pot pie
- Apple pie
- Banana cream pie
- Blackberry pie
- Blueberry pie
- Cherry pie
- Chocolate cream pie
- Coconut cream pie
- Dutch apple pie
- Key lime pie
- Lemon meringue pie
- Mixed berry pie
- Peach pie
- Pecan pie
- Pickle pie
- Pumpkin pie
- Sour cream raisin pie
- Strawberry-rhubarb pie
- All-purpose pie crust
In Vodun, Pie is a soldier-loa who lived at the bottoms of lakes and rivers and caused floods.
Not to be confused with the number Pi, the pie menu, or Proto-Indo-European (PIE)
tarte tatin occasionally is miscategorized as a form of pie. It is actually a sweet upside-down cake.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Pie."
Synonym: PIESSynonym: Tarts (Pies). (additional references) |
Crosswords: PIES |
| English words defined with "PIES": beach plum ♦ cooking apple ♦ divine ♦ elysian ♦ garden rhubarb ♦ inspired ♦ Kitcat ♦ meringue ♦ pie plant, Pieman ♦ Rheum cultorum, Rheum rhabarbarum, Rheum rhaponticum, Rimmer ♦ sour cherry. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "PIES": baker, cake, baker, pastry, baker, pie, BAKER, PIZZA, bakeshop cleaner ♦ cake maker, Carmelite, cone chocolate dipper, cone racker, COOK HELPER, PASTRY, cook, pastry, cook, pie, COOK, SPECIALTY ♦ FREEZER OPERATOR, FROZEN PIE MAKER ♦ Green Sleeves and Pudding Pies ♦ ice-cream freezer ♦ John Anderson, my Jo ♦ Kit-cat Club ♦ LABORER, PIE BAKERY ♦ Mince Pies ♦ NOVELTY WORKER ♦ pastry helper, pie chef, PIE MAKER ♦ WAITER/WAITRESS, INFORMAL. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "PIES" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (urine), Polish (dog). |
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Screenplays | You better not be tellin' me porky pies. (Snatch.; writing credit: Guy Ritchie) This must be where pies go when they die. (Twin Peaks; writing credit: G. William Jones) I'll have three burgers, three apple pies and three shakes (Charlie's Angels; writing credit: Ivan Goff; Ben Roberts) With this money I can get away from you. From your chickens and your pies and your kitchens and everything that smells of grease (Mildred Pierce; writing credit: James M. Cain; Ranald MacDougall) Ugh. There have been very few moments in my life where I have actually wished I had one of those enormous cream pies you can just smash in someone's face, but this is definitely one of them (Gilmore Girls; writing credit: Povl Erik Carstensen; Sebastian Dorset) | |
Lyrics | Hoping for American 20 inch pies (Southern Hospitality; performing artist: Ludacris) And sweet potato pies ooh grandma please (Ain't No Place Like Home; performing artist: Prince) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Pies (1973) No le busques tres pies... (1968) Pies and Guys (1958) A los pies de usted (1945) Custard Pies (1929) | |
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 | U. S. Army Hospital Number 99, Hyeres, France. : Baking pies for patients at le Golf Hotel. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | At the Crouch family Thanksgiving Day dinner. Pumpkin pies. Ledyard, Connecticut. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Neffsville, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Earle Landis taking Thanksgiving pies from the oven. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Bell Aircarft Corp. Niagara Falls, New York. Pies and cakes in the employees' cafeteria. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Cutting the pies and cakes at the barbeque dinner, Pie Town, New Mexico Fair. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Pies and paper pie plates. Close-up of pie. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Potomac Electric Power Co. electric appliances. Many rows of pies. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "Pies for lunch" by Wendy Cain Commentary: "Just for fun." |
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Author Unknown | Produce great pumpkins, the pies will follow later. |
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Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | And pies in wire cages and oranges in pyramids of four |
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Health | Foods that usually contain high amounts of sugar include pies, cakes, cookies, ice cream, candy, soft drinks, fruit drinks, fruit packed in syrup, commercially fruited yogurt, jams, jelly, doughnuts, and sweet rolls. (references) | |
Business | The growth of the theme restaurant sector is a recent trend that continues to gain popularity, with restaurants like El Rancho (Tex/Mex), Buffalo Grill (American fare), Tarte Julie (specialty sweet and savory pies), and Flam's (regional cuisine from Alsace). (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | CARMELITE, n. A mendicant friar of the order of Mount Carmel. As Death was a-rising out one day, Across Mount Camel he took his way, Where he met a mendicant monk, Some three or four quarters drunk, With a holy leer and a pious grin, Ragged and fat and as saucy as sin, Who held out his hands and cried: "Give, give in Charity's name, I pray. Give in the name of the Church. O give, Give that her holy sons may live!" And Death replied, Smiling long and wide: "I'll give, holy father, I'll give thee -- a ride." With a rattle and bang Of his bones, he sprang From his famous Pale Horse, with his spear; By the neck and the foot Seized the fellow, and put Him astride with his face to the rear. The Monarch laughed loud with a sound that fell Like clods on the coffin's sounding shell: "Ho, ho! A beggar on horseback, they say, Will ride to the devil!" -- and thump Fell the flat of his dart on the rump Of the charger, which galloped away. Faster and faster and faster it flew, Till the rocks and the flocks and the trees that grew By the road were dim and blended and blue To the wild, wild eyes Of the rider -- in size Resembling a couple of blackberry pies. Death laughed again, as a tomb might laugh At a burial service spoiled, And the mourners' intentions foiled By the body erecting Its head and objecting To further proceedings in its behalf. Many a year and many a day Have passed since these events away. The monk has long been a dusty corse, And Death has never recovered his horse. For the friar got hold of its tail, And steered it within the pale Of the monastery gray, Where the beast was stabled and fed With barley and oil and bread Till fatter it grew than the fattest friar, And so in due course was appointed Prior. G.J. |
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| "PIES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "PIES" is used about 451 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 100% | 451 | 12,908 |
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| The following table summarizes the usage of "PIES" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Pies | Last name | 130 | 61,180 |
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Ending with "PIES": apple-pies, porky-pies, sand-pies, strain-on-your-meat-pies, Warden-pies. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
creamy pies.com | 4 |
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| Language | Translations for "PIES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
French | tartes. (various references) | |
German | Torten (fancy cakes, pastry, tarts). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | iespay.(various references) | |
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Derivations | |
Words ending with "PIES": allotropies, allotypies, anisotropies, apocarpies, aromatherapies, arthroscopies, atopies, autotypies, bibliotherapies, bioscopies, bronchoscopies, buppies, canopies, cheapies, chemotherapies, chippies, chronotherapies, copies, counterspies, cowpies, crappies, creepies, croppies, cryoscopies, cryotherapies, cystoscopies, daguerreotypies, electrotherapies, endoscopies, enthalpies, entropies, espies, fetoscopies, floppies, fluoroscopies, gastroscopies, groupies, guppies, harpies, hippies, hydrotherapies, hypnotherapies, immunotherapies, isotopies, isotropies, jalopies, jaloppies, kelpies, koppies, laparoscopies, laryngoscopies. (additional references) | |
Words containing "PIES": bumpiest, campiest, chippiest, chirpiest, choppiest, clumpiest, crappiest, creepiest, crepiest, crimpiest, crispiest, croupiest, cuppiest, dippiest, dopiest, drippiest, droopiest, dumpiest, flappiest, floppiest, frumpiest, gappiest, gimpiest, glumpiest, goopiest, grapiest, gripiest, grippiest, grumpiest, gulpiest, happiest, hempiest, hippiest, hoppiest, humpiest, isopiestic, jumpiest, lippiest, loopiest, loppiest, lumpiest, mopiest, nappiest, nippiest, pappiest, peppiest, pipiest, preppiest, pulpiest, raspiest, ropiest. (additional references) | |
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"PIES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ie, ip, ipea, Ipex, ipez, ipos, mpis, paes, Paez, Pdes, peesy, peez, peig, peigs, peios, peis, peiz, pesi, phie, phis, phise, pias, Piast, pices, pics, piec, pief, pieg, piegs, piese, Piesl, pieuse, piev, piew, piex, pieze, pifs, piiz, pijs, piks, pims, pios, pis, pisk, pism, pius, Piws, pixes, pixs, ples, Plez, poes, poez, Ppias, Psis, pues, puie, pyc, pyes, Pyms, pys, pyxes, yies, zies. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "PIES" (pronounced pī"z) |
| 3 | p ī" z | despise, spies. |
| 2 | -ī" z | advise, ais, applies, apprise, arise, ayes, baptize, belies, bise, buys, chastise, complies, comprise, cries, decries, decriminalize, defies, demise, denies, devise, dies, disguise, dries, dyes, emprise, eyes, flies, fries, goodbyes, guise, guys, highs, implies, incise, lies, oversize, plies, pries, prize, relies, replies, reprise, revise, rise, sensationalize, shies, sighs, size, skies, supplies, surmise, surprise, thighs, ties, tries, underlies, unwise, vies, whys, wise. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: sipe. | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-p-s" | |
-1 letter: pes, pie, pis, psi, sei, sip. | |
-2 letters: es, is, pe, pi, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-p-s" | |
+1 letter: epics, kepis, paise, peins, peise, penis, peris, piers, pikes, piles, pines, pipes, piste, pixes, plies, poise, pries, prise, ripes, sepia, sepic, siped, sipes, slipe, snipe, speil, speir, spice, spied, spiel, spier, spies, spike, spile, spine, spire, spite, stipe, swipe, wipes, yipes. | |
+2 letters: apices, aspire, biceps, bipeds, copies, cripes, dispel, equips, espial, espied, espies, esprit, genips, gripes, impels, impose, instep, lipase, lisped, lisper, mispen, opines, paries, pastie, pavise, peised, peises, pekins, pelvis, pennis, pensil, pepsin, perils, perish, petsai, pewits, phizes, pieces, pietas, pikers, pileus, pilose, pipers, pipets, piques, pished, pishes, pissed, pisser, pisses, pistes, pities, pixels, pixies, pliers, plisse, pogies, poised, poiser, poises, pokies, poleis, polies, ponies, popsie, posies, potsie, praise, precis, prices, prides, priers, priest, primes, prised, prises, prizes, puisne, pyxies, redips, repins, reship, ripens, ripest, sepias, sepsis, septic, simper, simple, sipped, sipper, sippet, sliped, slipes, sniped, sniper, snipes, sopite, spavie, specie, speils, speirs, speise, speiss, spicae, spiced, spicer, spices, spicey, spider, spiels, spiers, spiked, spiker, spikes, spikey, spiled, spiles, spined, spinel, spines, spinet, spirea, spired, spirem, spires, spited, spites, splice, spline, sprier, sprite, stiped, stipel, stipes, stripe, supine, swiped, swipes, swiple, tripes, uprise, upside, vespid, vipers, wipers, wisped. | |
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