pye

[ pahy ]

noun

, Ecclesiastical.

1. a variant of pie ⁴.

pye

/ paɪ /

noun

1. a variant spelling of pie 5

Word History and Origins

Origin of pye¹

First recorded in 1530–40

Example Sentences

So home to dinner, and had an excellent Good Friday dinner of peas porridge and apple pye.

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There, beyond the Joe-Pye weed, and between the stump and the cedar-top, is a hand's breadth of black water.

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Keep some whole ones, to lay a bed of them at the top of the Pye, when all is in.

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"Those Pye girls are cheats all round," said Diana indignantly, as they climbed the fence of the main road.

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Mr. Phillips will make me sit with that horrid Gertie Pye—I know he will because she is sitting alone.

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