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pork pie

pork pie

3 3.1
A small cold pie filled with seasoned pork
  • noun
  • /pɔːk paɪ/
  • UK
translation icon : pastel de cerdo
  • At the picnic, everyone brought their favorite foods, and I brought a homemade pork pie to share.

Ordinary stuff, you know, pork pies and sausages.

Examples

  • Sits them all around a table, beer and pork pie.

    Made in Dagenham (2010)

  • Now I can get fat and old, trim the roses, and eat pork pies.

    Ford v Ferrari (2019)

  • A savoury pork pie.

    Great Expectations (1946)

  • I enjoyed a delicious pork pie for lunch today, filled with minced pork and spices.

  • After the football match, we celebrated with some cold drinks and a few pork pies from the local bakery.

Synonyms

pie
vspork pie
696 1.0

A baked pastry with a sweet or savory filling

is a small cold version with minced seasoned meat filling not general baked fillings
meat pie
vspork pie
5 1.0

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

is smaller, served cold, and filled with minced seasoned meat not mixed hot meats

How Handheld

pork pie
  • UK
3 3.1
ham sandwich
12 1.0
pork roast
2 1.6

Surface Forms

pork pie singular
pork pies plural

Morphology

pork + pie

The meaning 'a pie filled with pork' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'pork' (meat from a pig) with 'pie' (a filled pastry); the compound simply specifies the pie's filling. This is a straightforward, compositional noun+noun construction common across languages and immediately comprehensible to learners who know both words.

Etymology

Pork pie comes from long ago in England, where bakers made small pork pies with a firm crust so the meat could be carried and eaten 'cold'. That's why a pork pie today means a small pie filled with pork and often eaten 'cold'.