pye

pye (plural pyes)

1. Archaic spelling of pie (pastry food).
   • 1747, Hannah Glasse, The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy:

     A Cheshire Pork Pye for Sea

pye (plural pyes)

1. (zoology) Ellipsis of pye-dog (an Indian breed, a stray dog in Indian contexts).

• Henry Yule, A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903) “pye”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […].

• joe-pye weed

• yep, Yep, pey, YEP

• IPA^(key): /pje/

From French pied (“foot”).

pye

1. (anatomy) foot

• pyete
• pyeton

pye

1. tree

From Medieval Latin pīca (“pie”), from Latin pīca (“magpie”).

• pie, peye

• IPA^(key): /ˈpiː(ə)/

pye (plural pyes)

2. pie (pastry dish)

• English: pie
• Scots: pie
• Yola: pee

• “pī(e, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-18.

From Old French pie, from Latin pīca (“magpie”).

• pie, peye, py, piȝe

• IPA^(key): /ˈpiː(ə)/

pye (plural pyes)

2. magpie (bird in the family Corvidae)
3. Someone who is cunning or wily.

• English: pie ⇒ magpie, piebald, pied
• Scots: pie ⇒ pyat
  • → Scottish Gaelic: pitheid
• Yola: pee
• → Welsh: pi, pia ⇒ piod

• “pī(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-18.