2. Noun. An instance of throwing a pie at someone, most prominently a politician or other powerful or influential person as a means of protest. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pieing
1. pi [v] - See also: pi
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pieing
Literary usage of Pieing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. British Farmer's Magazine (1855)
"The pieing is one of the most difficult operations in stacking : every sheaf must
be so laid that the lower ends of the outer sheaves droop downwards, ..."
2. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1880)
"pieing the form may have been an accident," said Ned; "but when he scoops up a
double handful of the pi and goes to pouring it into the case, that can't be ..."
3. The Works of Charles Sumner by Charles Sumner (1883)
"pieing common to all, they must be under the safeguard of all. Nor can any State
set up its local system against the universal law. ..."
4. The Year Book of Daily Recreation and Information: Concerning Remarkable Men ...by William Hone by William Hone (1841)
"... and this is called "going a pudding-pieing." The pudding-pies are from the
size of a tea-cup to that of a small tea-saucer. ..."
5. Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: Chiefly by John Brand, Henry Ellis (1893)
"Kent, sport of Holly-boy and Ivy- girl in, i, 68. custom of pudding-pieing in,
at Easter, i, 180. custom in, on St. James's Day, i, 346. custom of " Gooding ..."
6. British Popular Customs, Present and Past: Illustrating the Social and by Thomas Firminger Thiselton Dyer (1900)
"At this season young people go out holiday-making in public-houses, to eat
pudding-pies, and this practice is called going a pudding-pieing. ..."
7. History of North Carolina by Samuel A'Court Ashe (1908)
"... where they found the unhappy Palatines in miserable plight. was more fortunate,
and after a few weeks they landed 'J£ pieing a landgrave, De Graffenried ..."
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