Pie vs Sie - What's the difference?
pie | sie |
A type of pastry that consists of an outer crust and a filling.
Any of various other, non-pastry dishes that maintain the general concept of a shell with a filling.
(Northeastern US) Pizza.
(figuratively) The whole of a wealth or resource, to be divided in parts.
* It is easier to get along when everyone, more or less, is getting ahead. But when the pie is shrinking, social groups are more likely to turn on each other.'' — , ''[http://www.newsweek.com/2010/12/04/the-deepest-dangers-facing-the-united-states.html Why It’s Time to Worry] , Newsweek 2010-12-04
(letterpress) A disorderly mess of spilt type.
(cricket) An especially badly bowled ball.
(pejorative) a gluttonous person.
A pie chart.
* 1986 , Carolyn Sorensen, ?Henry J. Stock, Department of Education Computer Graphics Guide (page 8)
(slang) The vulva.
* 1981 , William Kotzwinkle, Jack in the Box
* 2010 , W. A. Moltinghorne, Magnolia Park (page 238)
To hit in the face with a pie, either for comic effect or as a means of protest (see also pieing).
To go around (a corner) in a guarded manner.
(historical) The smallest unit of currency in South Asia, equivalent to 1/192 of a rupee or 1/12 of an anna.
* 1888 , Rudyard Kipling, ‘The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes’, The Phantom ’Rickshaw and Other Tales , Folio Society 2005, page 117:
To sink; fall; drop.
To fall, as in a swoon; faint.
(dialectal) To drop, as water; trickle.
To sift.
(dialectal) To strain, as milk; filter.
(neologism)
* 1993 September 24, Alex Martelli, "punishment vs ethics (was Re: Discipline my daughters)", in alt.sex.bondage, Usenet :
* {{quote-book
, year = 2010
, date = September 16
, title = Amaranth and Ash
, author = Jessica Freely
, publisher = Lightning Source
, location = La Vergne
, isbn = 9781461136620
, page = 101
, passage = "You must be Ash," sie said, hir voice a shade deeper than Amaranth's.
, url = http://books.google.com/books?id=WpHMcQAACAAJ
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* {{quote-book
, year = 2011
, date = May 19
, title = The Other Genders: Androgyne, Genderqueer, Non-Binary Gender Variant
, author = Ken Wickham
, publisher = CreateSpace
, isbn = 9781461136620
, page = 7
, passage = Sie may feel that hir actual identity of hir gender is supposed to be both/neither male or female, outside of gender, third gender, beyond gender, absence of gender, mixing gender, changing gender, or all genders.
, url = http://books.google.com/books?id=zWmWZwEACAAJ
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* {{quote-book
, year = 2011
, date = August 16
, title = Disability Culture and Community Performance: Find a Strange and Twisted Shape
, author = Petra Kuppers
, publisher = Palgrave Macmillan
, location = New York
, isbn = 9780230298279
, id =
, lccn = 2011012058
, page = 18
, passage = When I asked hir about hir preferred self-identification in this scene, sie' offered me this language, '' sie sharply performs the hotness of teasing all the audience from the edge-space of androgyny.'
, url = http://books.google.com/books?id=jAP1tgAACAAJ
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In transitive terms the difference between pie and sie
is that pie is to go around (a corner) in a guarded manner while sie is to sift.As a proper noun PIE
is initialism of Proto-Indo-European|lang=en.As a pronoun sie is
Gender-neutral (or multigendered) subject pronoun, grammatically equivalent to the gendered pronouns he and she, or singular theypie
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), unknown origin.Noun
- The family had steak and kidney pie''' for dinner and cherry '''pie for dessert.
- Shepherd's pie is made of mince covered with mashed potato.
- Pies are best for comparing the components of only one or two totals.
- "Yeah, take it off!" "SHOW US YOUR PIE !" The brunette opened the catch on her G-string and let the sequinned cloth slip down, teasing them with it.
- Yeah, some guys like to eat the old hairy pie . Women, too, or so I've heard.
Derived terms
* apple pie * chicken pie * cottage pie * cream pie * cutie pie * easy as pie * have one's fingers in many pies * humble pie * meat pie * mince pie * mud pie * party pie * pie chart * pie floater * pie in the sky * pie-eater * pie-eyed * pie-faced * piehole * pieing * piemaker * piet * pork pie * pot pie * shepherd's pie * steak and kidney pie * sweet as pie * who ate all the piesSee also
* pastie * pastyVerb
(d)- I'd like to see someone pie the chairman of the board.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) pie, from (etyl) .Derived terms
* piebaldEtymology 3
From (etyl) .Noun
(en-noun)- I gave him all the money in my possession, Rs.9.8.5. – nine rupees, eight annas, and five pie – for I always keep small change as bakshish when I am in camp.
Anagrams
* English terms with unknown etymologies ----sie
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Alternative forms
* (l) * (l), (l) (Scotland)Verb
Etymology 2
Alternative forms
* (l)Pronoun
- If the child is about the intellectual equal of the parent, sie will eventually start holding hir own in discussions,