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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[kuhs-terd-pahy]
/ ˈkʌs tərdˈpaɪ /
adjective
custard pie
British
noun
Etymology
Origin of custard-pie
First recorded in 1930–35
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A 2002 hit on the French presidential candidate Jean-Pierre Chevenement -- with a pineapple-flavoured missile at the Paris book fair -- would lead custard-pie throwing to be ruled a criminal offence.
From Barron's ● Aug. 24, 2026
She has one foot on the dashboard, and bubble-gum bubbles are popping out of her funny little rosebud mouth, right there in the middle of her funny big custard-pie face.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
But Mother had left a custard-pie on the upper shelf, and poor Bubble wanted a piece of it for dinner.
From Queen Hildegarde by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards
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
When speaking at the Cambridge Union in 1958, he was hit in the face with a custard pie.
From Salon ● Mar. 30, 2023
He dodged every rubber band, coconut custard pie, mud clod, and wadded-up sock ball they flung his way.
From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein
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