shepherd's pie
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- noun
- /ˈʃɛpərdz paɪ/
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pastel de pastor
- That's two shepherd's pies, then, please.
- potato-topped shepherd's pie
- chili and shepherd's pie
- eating shepherd's pie
Examples
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Nearly 50 beers at this English pub, with daily food specials like corned beef, shepherd's pie, and poutine.
Blog text (32) -
At the restaurant, I ordered a hearty shepherd's pie that was topped with perfectly browned potatoes.
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ROSE: It's shepherd's pie tonight.
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Shepherd's pie and stuff, I think.
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I love how you made individual Shepherd's Pies - so cute!
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The shepherd's pie is heavenly.
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Make something simple, like macaroni and cheese or shepherd's pie.
Fiction book (1997) -
Here was a very traditional shepherd's pie, basically a type of meat pie filled with lamb and topped with a mashed potato crust.
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For dinner, we had a delicious shepherd's pie made with tender lamb and creamy mashed potatoes.
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My grandmother always made her famous shepherd's pie for family gatherings, using layers of meat and vegetables.
Synonyms
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A baked dish of minced meat, usually beef, topped with mashed potatoes
Surface Forms
Morphology
shepherd's + pie
The components 'shepherd's' and 'pie' give a partial clue: a learner can infer it is a pie associated with shepherds, which plausibly signals sheep/lamb meat rather than a sweet pastry. However, the specific form (minced meat cooked with vegetables and a mashed-potato topping and baked) is a conventional recipe detail that is not directly predictable from the constituents, so full meaning requires cultural/lexical knowledge.
Etymology
The dish shepherd's pie was named after shepherd because it was often made with lamb from 'sheep' that shepherds looked after. The word pie means a baked dish, so shepherd's pie came to mean the oven-baked meat dish with mashed potatoes on top that we eat today.