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pye

[ pahy ]

noun

, Ecclesiastical.
  1. a variant of pie 4.


pye

/ paɪ /

noun

  1. a variant spelling of pie 5
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of pye1

First recorded in 1530–40
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Example Sentences

Flyways, working in tandem with Ward, had found the most efficient route, which would take Pullis west of the Puget Sound, past waypoints ETCHY and PYE near Point Reyes, and into San Francisco from the west.

From Time

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

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

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

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

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

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