custard-pie
adjective
characteristic of a type of slapstick comedy in which a performer throws a pie in another's face: popular especially in the era of vaudeville and early silent films.
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American
[kuhs-terd-pahy]
/ ˈkʌs tərdˈpaɪ /
adjective
custard pie
British
noun
Etymology
Origin of custard-pie
First recorded in 1930–35
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Boisterous, rowdy, full of custard-pie humor, the program last week was hard on the heels of top-rating quiz show Information Please.
From Time Magazine Archive
Bing sings a few songs; Hope clowns and rolls his eyes at Dotty; the late Robert Benchley breaks in from time to time to put a gloss on the frozen custard-pie humor.
From Time Magazine Archive
They watched beadily as the slim, smiling youth received the first, custard-pie impact of an American welcome.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the other hand, he has also lost the Elizabethan faculty for fairly plastering his "opponent" with a custard-pie onslaught of laborious, invidious obscenities.
From Time Magazine Archive
When he came to the deserts the waiter said: "We have mince-pie, apple-pie, pumpkin-pie, and custard-pie."
From My Memories of Eighty Years by Chauncey M. (Chauncey Mitchell) Depew
And this episode in the three-part Vice sports series “Out of Bounds” will likely have the effect of a figurative custard pie in the face of the heavily armed and coercive DraftKings-FanDuel-powered juggernaut.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 2026
"I want to demonstrate that I can make serious points by flinging a custard pie around the stage for a couple of hours," the Czech-born Stoppard said in a 1970s interview.
From Barron's ● Nov. 29, 2025
“I filled in those holes through volunteering, through being an actor, through golf, bridge,” he said over a lunch of meatloaf and custard pie.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2025
I implicitly distrust any custard pie recipe that tells you to bake it at a higher temperature because it just isn’t right.
From Salon ● Nov. 19, 2024
And of course, Minny’s pie. .. and the winner of Minny Jackson’s world-famous chocolate custard pie is...
From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett
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