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piemaking

piemaking noun: the manufacture of pies.

Noun

piemaking (uncountable)

  1. The manufacture of pies.
    • The adult Ned is a loner who lives off a less exotic talent, piemaking, and starts his own bakery, the Pie Hole, helped by a pushily amorous waitress, Olive Snook (Kristin Chenoweth), who doesn’t understand why her boss won’t ever touch her.2007 October 3, Alessandra Stanley, “Loner Finds He Has a Touch for Piemaking and Undeadmaking”, in New York Times

Origin of piemaking

From pie + making.

Questions about piemaking

What does piemaking mean?
Piemaking means the manufacture of pies.
What part of speech is piemaking?
Piemaking is a noun.

Words near piemaking in the dictionary

  1. pielike
  2. Piels
  3. piem
  4. piemaker
  5. piemakers
  6. piemaking
  7. pieman
  8. piemen
  9. piemento
  10. Piemontese
  11. piemontite

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