pieing off
pieing off is the present participle and gerund of pie off.
Meaning of pie off
Verb
pie off (third-person singular simple present pies off, present participle pieing off, simple past and past participle pied off)
- To make into a pie, or otherwise get rid of.
- […]he intends to take you in partner with him; so that you may steal sheep upon the downs here, and he'll pie them off in London.1795, Merryfield, Merryfield's jests; or, Wit's companion., page 57
- To ignore or reject.
- Anyway, as the evening got more and more raucous and he group got drunker, one of the women sidled up to me and pressed herself up against me and tried to snog me. That night the boss was being a propa jobsworth, so I had to give he woman a Scotty smile and politely pie her off.2016 October 20, w:Scotty T, A Shore Thing
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- Pieing off is the present participle and gerund of pie off.
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