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pieman en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

* From Middle English pyman (attested as a surname), equivalent to pie + -man. * (caller in gambling games): Such games were once often run by sellers of pies as a sideline.

Meanings

1. A man who sells pies.
   • Simple Simon met a pieman / Going to the fair; / Says Simple Simon to the pieman, / “Let me taste your ware.” 1886, James Orchard Haliwell, The Nursery Rhymes of England, 5th edition, page 31:
2. (UK, obsolete, slang) The man who called heads or tails in street gambling games of coin tossing.

Forms

Deriveds

toss the pieman