pieing
pieing is the present participle and gerund of pie.
Meaning of pie
Verb
pie (third-person singular simple present pies, present participle pieing, simple past and past participle pied)
- To hit in the face with a pie, either for comic effect or as a means of protest (see also pieing).
- I'd like to see someone pie the chairman of the board.
- To go around (a corner) in a guarded manner.
- To ignore (someone).
- Some of my friends drop everyone out as soon as they get a girlfriend, and they alienate people. Or they stop going out to the gym and doing things they love because they're all about the other person. When you do that you're sacrificing yourself and you will be left with nothing if you split up....2017, Marcel Somerville, Dr Marcel's Little Book of Big Love: Your Guide to Finding Love, the Island Way, London: Blink Publishing, →ISBN, page 50
Noun
pieing (plural pieings)
- An instance of throwing a pie at someone, often a politician or other powerful or influential person as a means of protest.
- The Canadian prime minister was the victim of a pieing.
Forms of pieing
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Phrases with pieing
Words that rhyme with pieing
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- bespying
- buying
- clying
- complying
- decrying
- defying
- denying
- descrying
- dyeing
- espying
- forbuying
- frying
- goodbyeing
- high-flying
- highing
- implying
- lyeing
- lying
- mistrying
- nighing
- outvying
- plying
- prying
- rebuying
- redyeing
- refrying
- relying
- replying
- retrying
- retying
- scrying
- shanghaiing
- shying
- sighing
- skying
- speed flying
- spying
- stying
- supplying
- thighing
- unbuying
- uncrying
- undrying
- undyeing
- undying
- unflying
- unfrying
- unlying
Questions about pieing
- What does pieing mean?
- Pieing means an instance of throwing a pie at someone, often a politician or other powerful or influential person as a means of protest.
- What is pieing the present participle and gerund of?
- Pieing is the present participle and gerund of pie.
- What part of speech is pieing?
- Pieing is a noun.
- What is the plural of pieing?
- The plural of pieing is pieings.
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