Meaning

(usually attributive) Alternative form of pie baking..

Definitions by Sense

1. (usually attributive) Alternative form of pie baking.
2. That bakes pies.

Example Sentences

“It appears you have not forgotten the pies yet,” exclaimed the czar, with a burst of laughter; “but I do not clearly see the connection between pie-baking and shipbuilding."

The old lodgings are aromatic with her pie-bakings.

Of course, all housekeepers make enough pastry for two or three pie-bakings, don t we?

Winner of three blue ribbons in the pie-baking contest and four in the cakebaking contest at the county fair.

One year later, writer and humorist Andrei Codrescu informed readers of Travel Holiday magazine that "going to the Ozark Mountains is like visiting your grandmother, provided your grandmother was an old-fashioned, pie-baking, herb-growing pioneer who used homemade brooms and poured ice cream from a dented churn."

But the thing is, I don't like being compared to a pie-baking paragon who doesn't even exist, and I don't like you implying that I don't have the brains or the professionalism to assist this investigation.

It was the seemingly total transplant of her personality from a sweet, pie-baking granny to a septuagenarian hooligan.

Word Forms

• pie-bakings
• more pie-baking
• most pie-baking

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When Should You Use Pie-baking?

Use pie-baking when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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