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Pork Pie

Definition: Pork Pie

Pork Pie

Noun

1. Small pie filled with minced seasoned pork.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Modern Usage: Pork Pie

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Screenplays

First, we go in there and get wrecked, then we eat a pork pie, then we drop some Surmontil-50's each. (Withnail and I; writing credit: Bruce Robinson.)

Movie/TV Titles

The Perils of Pork Pie (1916)

Goodbye Pork Pie (1981)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Pork Pie

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References

  • The 2003-2008 World Outlook for Pork Pie Appetisers and Dips (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • The History of the Melton Mowbray Pork Pie (The Best of British in Old Photographs) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  • Goodbye Pork Pie (Amazon.com Exclusive) (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Use in Literature: Pork Pie

TitleAuthorQuote

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

A denim coat with brass buttons and a spotted brown hat creased like a pork pie lay on the ground beside him.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Expression: Pork Pie

Expression using "pork pie": pork pie hat. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Pork Pie

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

pork pie

59

pork pie hat

29

pork pie percussion

22

good bye pork pie

4

good bye pork pie hat

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Pork Pie

Language Translations for "pork pie"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

byrek me mish derri të grirë. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

пирог със свинско месо. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

tésztába sütött vagdalt disznóhús (pork-pie). (various references)

   

Manx

  

pye feill vuc. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

orkpay iepay

   

Romanian

  

plãcintã cu carne de porc. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

пирог со свининой. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

pita od mesa. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

fläskpastej. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

kıymalı börek (squab pie). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

pa-tê lợn. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Pork Pie

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: porkpie.

Words within the letters "e-i-k-o-p-p-r"

-1 letter: kipper, koppie, pokier.

-2 letters: piker, piper, poker.

-3 letters: keir, kepi, kier, kore, pepo, peri, perk, perp, pier, pike, pipe, poke, pope, pore, pork, prep, prop, repo, repp, ripe, rope.

-4 letters: ire, irk, kep, kip, kir, koi, kop, kor, oke, ope, ore, pep, per, pie, pip, poi, pop, pro, rei, rep, rip, roe.

-5 letters: er, oe.

 Words containing the letters "e-i-k-o-p-p-r"
 

+1 letter: porkpies.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Pork Pie


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 6F 72 6B      50 69 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01101111 01110010 01101011 00100000 01010000 01101001 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#111 &#114 &#107 &#32 &#80 &#105 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 006F 0072 006B      0050 0069 0065

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

508184772507571

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Fiction
5. Expressions
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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