pies
Because it is a word with a single syllable, pies is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.
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Definitions ofpies
- To spill or mix printing type.
Synonyms: pie
- A type of pastry that consists of an outer crust and a filling.
Example: "The family had steak and kidney pie for dinner and cherry pie for dessert."
- Any of various other, non-pastry dishes that maintain the general concept of a shell with a filling.
Example: "Shepherd's pie is made of mince covered with mashed potato."
- (Northeastern US) A pizza.
- The whole of a wealth or resource, to be divided in parts.
- (letterpress) A disorderly mess of spilt type.
- An especially badly bowled ball.
- A pie chart.
- The vulva.
- To hit in the face with a pie, either for comic effect or as a means of protest (see also pieing).
Example: "I'd like to see someone pie the chairman of the board."
- To go around (a corner) in a guarded manner.
- (of printing types) To reduce to confusion; to jumble.
- Magpie.
- The smallest unit of currency in South Asia, equivalent to 1/192 of a rupee or 1/12 of an anna.
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