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Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: PER-PIG |
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PIE . (1) The name of the bird more generally known as the magpie (q.v.). The word comes through the French from Lat. pica (q.v.). It is probably from the black and white
appearance of the bird that the name "pie" or "pye" (Lat. pica) was given to the ordinal, a table or calendar which supplemented that which gave the services for the fixed festivals, &c., and pointed out the effect on them of the festivals rendered movable by the changing date of Easter. An English
appearance of the magpie also gives rise to the term
horse
white
meat
English
century of meat
The expression " to eat humble-pie," i.e. to make an apology
loin or umbilicus, navel), the inner parts of a deer, to " humble " (Lat. humilis, lowly). An " umble-pie," made of the inner parts of a deer or other animal, was once a favourite dish. " Printers' pie," i.e. a mass of confused type, is a transferred sense of " pie," the dish, or of " pie," the ordinal, from the difficulty of decipherment.End of Article: PIE If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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