noun
- Plural of pie; baked dishes with a pastry crust and sweet or savory filling.
- Plural of pye; magpies or birds of the magpie family.
Usage: Most common sense; standard culinary term
Usage: archaic or dialectal; chiefly British
Examples
- The bakery displayed several fruit pyes in the window.
- She baked three apple pyes for the holiday dinner.
- The restaurant offers both sweet and savory pyes on its menu.
- In old texts, pyes referred to the magpies seen in the countryside.
- We ordered two pumpkin pyes for Thanksgiving.