lamb pie

1 1.1

A baked pastry filled with cooked lamb and vegetables

noun

: pastel de cordero

On chilly evenings, a warm lamb pie is the perfect comfort food to enjoy with family.

Examples

I chose a lamb pie.

The Hours (2002)
- Esther called for my recipe for lamb pie, so I'm looking at up here.

Ageless Love (2022)
For dinner, we made a delicious lamb pie filled with tender chunks of meat and vegetables.
She requested the chef's famous lamb pie, which was renowned for its flaky crust and rich flavor.

Synonyms

pie

vslamb pie

696 1.0

A baked pastry with a sweet or savory filling

is narrower, focusing only on a savory meat filling

meat pie

vslamb pie

5 1.0

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

is the same type of dish but limits filling to one animal meat

Surface Forms

lamb pie singular

lamb pies plural

Morphology

lamb + pie

The meaning 'a pie filled with lamb' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'lamb' (meat from a young sheep) with 'pie' (pastry with a filling). This noun–noun compound follows a common modifier + head pattern found cross-linguistically and uses basic culinary vocabulary, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the MWE's meaning.

Etymology

Lamb pie comes from the simple idea of a lamb and a pie, meaning meat baked inside pastry. So today lamb pie means 'a baked pastry filled with lamb'.