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potpie

potpie

7 2.3
A baked dish of meat and vegetables often covered with a pastry crust
  • noun
  • /ˈpɑtˌpaɪ/
  • US
translation icon : pastel de carne
  • I ordered a delicious beef potpie for dinner, filled with tender meat and vegetables.
  • chicken potpie
  • lobster potpie
  • vegetable potpie

Examples

  • - Chicken potpie, my specialty.

    The One That Got Away (2008)

  • Go fix me a turkey potpie.

    The Breakfast Club (1985)

  • You guys have turkey potpie?

    Where the Day Takes You (1992)

  • Chicken potpie and Oysters Rockefeller.

    Fly Me to the Moon (2024)

  • Chicken potpie, Jake.

    Ernest Goes to Camp (1987)

  • Chicken potpie!

    Ernest Goes to Camp (1987)

  • Sometimes at night, the girls called and asked if we would bring over a pastie or a chicken potpie, and if I wasn't too busy, I'd run it over.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • It was there, buried between the blueberry muffin and the potpie.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • She was getting pretty tired of the instant macaroni-and-cheese suppers she'd been fixing herself, with an occasional chicken potpie or can of Chef Boyardee ravioli thrown in to break the monotony.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • The warm chicken potpie was the perfect comfort food on a chilly evening.

Synonyms

pie
vspotpie
696 1.0

A baked pastry with a sweet or savory filling

refers specifically to savory meat and vegetable versions, sometimes as a stew with dumplings
meat pie
vspotpie
5 1.0

A baked dish of cooked meat inside pastry, usually eaten hot

includes meat with vegetables or stew forms rather than only enclosed meat

How Filling

roast
197 1.0
potpie
  • US
7 2.3
stew
110 1.0
sandwich
800 1.0
snack
471 1.0

Surface Forms

potpie singular
potpies plural

Morphology

potpie = pot + pie (transparent) = pot + pie

A direct compound of 'pot' + 'pie' referring to a pie/stew associated with a pot, so the meaning is readily deducible.

Etymology

Potpie is simply the words pot + pie put together; picture a 'pot' full of meat and vegetables covered by a 'pie' crust. So, a potpie today is a warm, savory pie or a meat stew with dumplings, just like the name says.