shoo-fly pie

[ shoo-flahy ]

/ ˈʃuˌflaɪ /

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noun

an open pie filled with a sweet crumb and molasses mixture and baked.

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Origin of shoo-fly pie

First recorded in 1925–30; so called in allusion to the attractiveness of the molasses to unwanted flies

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How to use shoo-fly pie in a sentence

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Not enough black films are being made to warrant a piece of the pie.
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Having achieved this feat he sighed again, and applied himself assiduously to the pie.
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I want Mis' Calvert to taste it, an' when she does she'll say she never knew before what cherry pie could be!
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Mis' Spencer, you set that cherry pie o' yourn on this particular spot an' figure of this table-cloth!
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I dont think much of this jam pie, complained Chet, holding up a wedge that he had taken from his sisters basket.
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Tessa was shallow and she sighed and asked her if she would take apple pie.
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British Dictionary definitions for shoo-fly pie

shoofly pie

/ (ˈʃuːˌflaɪ) /

noun

US a dessert similar to treacle tart

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