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pie-wipe

pie-wipe is the alternative form of piewipe.

Meaning of piewipe

Noun

piewipe (plural piewipes)

  1. (East-Anglia, UK, archaic, dialectal) A bird, the lapwing or peewit.
    • looking for a watch and purse on Battersby piewipes was very like looking for a needle in a bundle of hay1873–1884 (date written), Samuel Butler, edited by R[ichard] A[lexander] Streatfeild, The Way of All Flesh, London: Grant Richards, published 1903, →OCLC

Forms of pie-wipe

pluralpie-wipes

Questions about pie-wipe

What is pie-wipe the alternative form of?
Pie-wipe is the alternative form of piewipe.

Words near pie-wipe in the dictionary

  1. pie-holes
  2. pie-house
  3. pie-in-the-sky
  4. pie-warmer
  5. pie-warmers
  6. pie-wipe
  7. pie-wipes
  8. piebaking
  9. piebald
  10. piebald dolphin
  11. piebald dolphins

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pie-wipe (page history and authors); piewipe (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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