PIE

  1. (initialism) .  (linguistics) Proto-Indo-European ''(the protolanguage of most modern European and Indic languages)''.
  2. Noun.  A type of pastry that consists of an outer crust and a filling.
  3. Noun.  Extended to other, non-pastry dishes that maintain the general concept of a shell with a filling.
  4. Noun.  (context, Northeastern US) Pizza.
  5. Noun.  (figuratively) The whole of a wealth or resource, to be divided in parts.
  6. Noun.  (letterpress) A disorderly mess of spilt type.
  7. Noun.  (cricket) An especially badly bowled ball.
  8. Noun.  (pejorative) a gluttonous person.
  9. Verb.  (transitive) To hit in the face with a pie, either for comic effect or as a means of protest (see also pieing).
  10. Verb.  (transitive) To go around (a corner) in a guarded manner.
  11. Noun.  (obsolete) magpie.
  12. Noun.  (historical) The smallest unit of currency in South Asia, equivalent to 1/192 of a Rupee or 1/12 of an anna.

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