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Definition: Pork Pie |
Pork PieNoun1. Small pie filled with minced seasoned pork. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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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) | |
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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. |
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Expression using "pork pie": pork pie hat. Additional references. | |
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| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
pork pie | 59 |
pork pie hat | 29 |
pork pie percussion | 22 |
good bye pork pie | 4 |
good bye pork pie hat | 3 |
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| 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 plãcintã cu carne de porc. (various references) пирог со свининой. (various references) pita od mesa. (various references) fläskpastej. (various references) kıymalı börek (squab pie). (various references) pa-tê lợn. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 6F 72 6B      50 69 65 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01101111 01110010 01101011 00100000 01010000 01101001 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P o r k   P i e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 006F 0072 006B      0050 0069 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)508184772507571 |
| 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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