apple pie en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ˌæp.əlˈpaɪ/ (UK, US)
- [ˌæp.ɫ̩ˈpɑɪ] (Australia)
- /ˌæp.əlˈpɑɪ/ (Australia)
- [ˌæp.ɫ̩ˈpaɪ] (UK, US)
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) A pie or tart made with a filling of cooked apples.
The enticing, homey scent of apple pie wafted into the hallway as she beckoned them into her lair.
2011 April 12, Beth Kendrick, chapter 29, in The Bake-Off, New York, N.Y.: New American Library, →ISBN:
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(countable, figuratively, uncountable) Anything positive that is quintessentially American.
She was a refugee, not to America but from within America: a Mom and apple pie America, an America of the past that was being rapidly transformed by material inventions, and by the freeways, malls, and drive-in banks cited in the song Big Science as landmarks on the road to town.
2021 April 8, Margaret Atwood, “‘It has never been more pertinent’ – Margaret Atwood on the chilling genius of Laurie Anderson’s Big Science”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:Hanks has often been called our generation's answer to James Stewart, and the similarities are certainly there. With his shared "gee shucks" sweetness and apple pie Americanness, Stewart also appeared in many war films and family dramas.
2021 February 9, Christina Newland, “Is Tom Hanks part of a dying breed of genuine movie stars?”, in BBC:[…] what we've been waiting for so long: a positive but never Pollyanish play about gays leading lives which are neither some bizarre caricature taken from heterosexual fantasy nor even more nuclear and apple-pie normal than any straight lives anyone has ever heard of.
1981 December 12, Andrea F. Loewenstein, “Gay Theatre Verité”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 21, page 10:
- (UK, countable, dialectal, uncountable) Any of various willowherbs.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| apple pies | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| apple-pie | alternative | lexicographic |
Deriveds
apple-pie order · apple-pie bed · English as apple pie · mom and apple pie · apple pie shooter · motherhood and apple pie · American as apple pie · flag, motherhood and apple pie
Translations (48)
fi periamerikkalainen asia (anything quintessentially American) · nn eplepai (pie with apple filling) · eo pomotorto (pie with apple filling) · he פאי תפוחים (pie with apple filling) · de Apfelkuchen (pie with apple filling) · ga pióg úll (pie with apple filling) · da æbletærte (pie with apple filling) · is eplabaka (pie with apple filling) · dsb jabłukowy tykańc (pie with apple filling) · nrf pâté d'pommes (pie with apple filling) · hu almás lepény (pie with apple filling) · wym epułkücha (pie with apple filling) · ko 애플파이 (pie with apple filling) · pt americanismo (anything quintessentially American) · ms pai epal (pie with apple filling) · sv äppelpaj (pie with apple filling) · yi עפּלפּײַ (pie with apple filling) · pl ciasto jabłkowe (pie with apple filling) · ja アップルパイ (pie with apple filling) · mt torta tat-tuffieħ (pie with apple filling) · da ærkeamerikansk (anything quintessentially American) · cmn 蘋果派 /苹果派 (pie with apple filling) · nb eplepai (pie with apple filling) · pt americanice (anything quintessentially American) · yue 蘋果批 /苹果批 (pie with apple filling) · da æblekage (pie with apple filling) · sh пи̏та о̏д ја̏бӯка̄ (pie with apple filling) · bg я́бълков пай (pie with apple filling) · dsb jabłukowy mazańc (pie with apple filling) · tr elmalı turta (pie with apple filling) · it torta di mele (pie with apple filling) · fi omenapiirakka (pie with apple filling) · eo pomokuko (pie with apple filling) · nl appeltaart (pie with apple filling) · ru я́блочный пиро́г (pie with apple filling) · nds-de Appelkoken (pie with apple filling) · ar فطيرَة التفاح (pie with apple filling) · ko 사과 파이 (pie with apple filling) · fi omenapiiras (pie with apple filling) · mn алимтай бялуу (pie with apple filling) · mn алимны бялуу (pie with apple filling) · fr tarte aux pommes (pie with apple filling) · hsb jabłučkowy tykanc (pie with apple filling) · es tarta de manzana (pie with apple filling) · fa پای سیب (pie with apple filling) · pt torta de maçã (pie with apple filling) · pl americana (anything quintessentially American) · sh pȉta ȍd jȁbūkā (pie with apple filling)