stargazy pie
stargazy pie noun: a Cornish dish of baked pilchards, covered with a pastry crust, arranged with their tails toward the centre of the pie and their heads poking up through the crust.
Noun
stargazy pie (usually uncountable, plural stargazy pies)
- A Cornish dish of baked pilchards, covered with a pastry crust, arranged with their tails toward the centre of the pie and their heads poking up through the crust.
- Another time, she dined in Hampstead, where she was fed a version of stargazy pie with a whole squid where the eel should have been. It was flavoured, for the full medieval effect, with galangal, which her hostess described as “kind of like frankincense”.2023 July 15, Rachel Cooke, “No, Nigella – dinner parties are great. Deliveroo just doesn’t cut it”, in The Observer, →ISSN
Forms of stargazy pie
| plural | stargazy pies |
|---|---|
| alternative form | stargazey pie |
| alternative form | starry-gazy pie |
Origin of stargazy pie
From stargaze + -y and pie, the upturned fish seeming to stare skywards.
Questions about stargazy pie
- What does stargazy pie mean?
- Stargazy pie means a Cornish dish of baked pilchards, covered with a pastry crust, arranged with their tails toward the centre of the pie and their heads poking up through the crust.
- What part of speech is stargazy pie?
- Stargazy pie is a noun.
- What is the plural of stargazy pie?
- The plural of stargazy pie is stargazy pies.
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