pie

Dessert with crust

A pie is a baked dish with a filling inside a pastry crust—fruit pies, meat pies, savory pies.

The filling is enclosed or topped with more pastry.

To describe something as easy as pie or a piece of pie is to call it effortless.

Pie in the sky refers to promises unlikely to materialize.

To have a finger in every pie is to be involved in many activities.

Pie chart names the circular graph divided into wedges. (Capitalized Pie may refer to the mathematical constant pi spelled out, or to a name.)

dessert

apple

Crisp tree fruit

blueberry · custard · cream · meringue · lemon · chess · shoofly · mince · rhubarb · blackberry

festive

Thanksgiving

Autumn gratitude holiday

celebration · feast · autumn · pumpkin · mince · gathering · table · centerpiece · tradition · seasonal

pastry

crust

Hard outer layer

  • doughFlour-liquid mixture for baking
  • flakyCrumbly or unreliable
  • shortcrustCrumbly, buttery pastry dough

puff · lattice · crimping · butter · lard · phyllo · golden · buttery · chilled · rolled

savory

shepherd's

Of a flock keeper

pork · pasty · empanada · samosa · quiche · spanakopita · calzone · pierogi · Cornish · raised

chart

graph

Visual data display

wedge · segment · proportion · circle · statistics · data · visualization · fraction · whole · division

comfort

homemade

Prepared at one's residence

tradition · family · hearth · cozy · Sunday · farmhouse · kitchen · windowsill · cooling · aroma

idiom

finger

Hand's grasping extension

  • humbleUnassuming about oneself
  • mudWet soil mixture
  • pieceA portion or segment

easy · simple · effortless · cinch · snap · breeze

slang

sweetie

Fond nickname for someone

  • cutieAppealing person, slangily
  • honeyBees' viscous nectar product
  • pizzaTopped flatbread dish

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Categories
Opposites
dessert type

piecake

Frosted baked dessert

layer cake · cupcake · torte · gateau · soufflé

food structure

piesalad

Cold dressed vegetables

open-faced sandwich · stir-fry · sashimi · carpaccio · crudités

ease/complexity metaphor

pierocket science

Spacecraft propulsion engineering

brain surgery · herculean task · uphill battle · hard nut to crack · tall order

Phrases
Family

pies, pied, magpie, piebald, pie-eyed, piemaker, pie-eater, piemaking

Familiarity
Top 2,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G