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词汇 pie eater
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Definition of pie eater in English:

pie eater

noun
  • 1A person who eats pies.

    the crusts are so flaky and delicious, that pie eaters around the world will rejoice
    Example sentencesExamples
    • He's a bagel eater, a shrimp scampi eater, a Boston cream pie eater, a Cheetos eater—he's an everything eater.
    • He's the world champion pie eater, sponsored by the pie factory.
    • Our love affair with the pie was one of the main reasons for bringing the fast-food concept—we're huge pie eaters over here.
    • The champion pie eater sprinkles vinegar over his three-pie gut-buster with the assurance of a winner.
    • Can the pie eaters keep eating until the votes are counted in November?
    • It's perplexed pie eaters for years: why does pastry go soggy in the microwave?
    • The tabloid would publish challenges from checkers players and pie eaters.
    • A man lunges at him with a plateful of shaving cream, and the pie eater is now facing criminal charges.
    • The pie eater in the overalls, his fingers still smelling of pecans, picked up the bass player and nearly squeezed the breath out of him.
    • She remembers his judging a recent pie contest, noting that he didn't seem much of a pie eater.
    1. 1.1derogatory, informal An overweight person.
      a pot-bellied pie eater
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He had ballooned to more than 24 stones and was a self-confessed pie eater before he decided to take action.
      • She sounds like a go-getter, but looks like a pie eater.
      • What a horrible little hypocritical man the fat pie eater is.
      • That wee fat pie eater has been duped as well.
      • The hair makes him look fatter, and he already looks like a pie eater.
    2. 1.2Australian informal A person of no importance.
      I'm just a pie eater, mate
      Example sentencesExamples
      • It's another smokescreen to cover earlier learned assurances that the Australians were a bunch of pie eaters.
      • In the dim distant past, wasn't a pie eater an insult in Australian slang?
      • By the time I leave town, word will be out that there's a weird pie eater on the loose.
      • As he walked from the green to the tee at one of the last holes, he ruefully remarked, "I'm just a big pie eater."
      • We figure every pie eater is a possible recruit in the battle.
      • He moved off, his pockets bulging with undelivered leaflets and his heart full of hatred and fear of what the pie eaters might do at the elections on the forthcoming Saturday.
      • He now works for the bookies to get the mugs in—the pie eaters.
      • Someone totally undistinguished may be called a pie eater, meat pies being a favourite food of the commonalty.
      • They will find an emotive and self-interested way to strike a chord with the pie eaters of Australia.
      • I will have to excuse myself—the little pie eater just showed up.
    3. 1.3British derogatory, informal A person from Wigan in NW England.
      the fans needed no winding up when the pie eaters were coming to town
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Where I'm from, we're known as pie eaters by the rest of the UK, so I've got a background in pies just culturally.
      • The reason you are called pie eaters goes back to the strike of 1926.
      • What would the Wigan pie eater have done in such circumstances?
      • Just eight miles separate them from Wigan's pie eaters!
      • Wigan prides itself as being the home of the pie, with its inhabitants known as pie eaters.
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