mud pie
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- noun
- /mʌd paɪ/
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pastel de barro
- All of Peggy Dear's children were sitting in the dirt, making mud pies, watching the wagon come.
- make mud pies
And we'd be just making mud cakes, mud pies.
- And we'd be just making mud cakes, mud pies.
Examples
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Do carry on with your mud pies.
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Our kids take dance, music lessons, belong to clubs, and play sports, as well as making mud pies, riding bikes, and just playing during their after-school hours.
Blog text (15) -
Do you want a mud pie?
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Get out in the fresh air, read a book, push your child on the swing, run a little, or make a mud pie.
Blog text (1) -
We used to make mud pies together.
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Well, I'd better get back to my mud pies.
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Ride bikes, make mud pies, feed the birds, and play tic-tac-toe in the dirt with sticks.
Blog text (32) -
Molly and I were making mud pies, slicing Jerusalem cherries to decorate the tops, and baking them in jar lids out in the sun.
Fiction book (1992) -
When we were kids, we spent hours playing outside and making mud pies in the backyard.
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At the park, the children giggled as they shaped their mud pies into perfect little circles.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a pie made of mud' is directly and literally derivable from combining 'mud' (material) with 'pie' (a shaped pastry), since the first noun modifies the second to indicate what it is made of. This noun+noun compositional pattern is common across languages and would be immediately comprehensible to a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.
Etymology
Mud pie comes from children playing outside who mix mud and water and shape it into a small pie like they are baking. So, mud pie means 'a mass of mud shaped into a pie', usually something children make while playing.