blueberry pie
- noun
- /ˈbluːˌbɛri paɪ/
- After dinner, I enjoyed a slice of warm blueberry pie with a scoop of ice cream.
- blueberry pie with ice cream
- baked a blueberry pie
- good blueberry pie
Examples
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It's the blueberry pie that does it.
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There's some chicken in the refrigerator and I saved you a piece of blueberry pie.
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This place has the best blueberry pie.
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Another piece of blueberry pie.
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It's blueberry pie and ice cream.
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Now, our family recipe for blueberry pie is, I think, a traditional one.
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And if they have blueberry pie, she generally takes a slice.
Fiction book (1994) -
Blueberry pie to go with the pancakes.
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Blueberry pie, my favorite!
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I told her I really didn't like cake all that much; if I had my druthers, a blueberry pie was what I'd most like.
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Synonyms
A baked pastry with a sweet or savory filling
Surface Forms
Morphology
This is a straightforward compound noun whose meaning is directly composed from 'blueberry' (a small fruit) + 'pie' (a filled pastry); a B1 learner who knows both words can infer it is a pie made with blueberries. The construction is a common, literal naming pattern found cross-linguistically, so the meaning is immediately transparent without prior exposure.
Etymology
Blueberry pie is a very literal name. It puts together blueberry (the small blue fruit) and pie (the baked dessert), so it simply means 'a pie filled with blueberries'.