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pieboy en · NOUN

Etymology

From pie + boy.

Meanings

  1. (rare) A boy who sells pies.
    • The Church of the Archangel Gabriel is usually known as the Menshikov Tower after its original owner, AD Menshikov, an illiterate pieboy who rose to become Peter's closest confidant and adviser and the most powerful man in Russia. 1977, Kathleen Berton, Moscow: an architectural history:

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