pieman

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.”
  2. The man who called heads or tails in street gambling games of coin tossing. UK,obsolete,slang

词形变化

piemen plural

词汇关系

衍生词
toss the pieman

词源

* 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.
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