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pork-ˈpie
[f. pork1 + pie n.2]
1. A pie of pastry enclosing minced pork.
1732Fielding Miser iii. iii, Let there be..some dainty fat pork-pye or pasty. 1859Eng. Cookery Bk. 202 A Plain Crust for Pork Pies. 1896Cassell's Dict. Cooking 610 Pork pies are generally made of the trimmings taken from a hog when it is cut up.
2. (In full pork-pie hat.) Popularly applied to a hat with a flat crown and a brim turned up all round, worn by women c 1855–65, recalling the shape of a deep circular pie; also applied loosely to similar hats worn by men. Also pork-pie cap.
1860G. A. Spottiswoode in Vac. Tour. 98 Pork-pie hats with streaming ribbons. 1863Mrs. H. Wood Shadow of Ashlydyat (1878) 329 Charlotte rose..and carried the pork-pie to the chimney-glass, to settle it on. 1883Ld. R. Gower My Remin. I. x. 173 He [Garibaldi] wore a sort of large pork-pie hat. 1888C. M. Yonge Beechcroft at Rockstone II. xv. 41 There certainly was a figure in somewhat close proximity, the ulster and pork-pie hat being such as to make the gender doubtful. 1891Spectator 26 Dec. 924/1 The bull⁓fighter's hat known in England as the ‘pork-pie’. 1910Blackw. Mag. Jan. 113/1 In the dreadful mustard-coloured uniform and pork-pie cap which the Government has ordained for these unusually fat servants. 1937Evening News 12 Feb. 8/3, I seem to remember that porters at the entrances of big hotels once wore greatcoats reaching almost to their ankles and that each had a pork-pie cap with a peak and a little round button on top. 1940Graves & Hodge Long Week-End xxi. 376 Low-crowned pork-pie hats were in fashion again. 1943R. Chandler Lady in Lake xxi. 118 His blue pork-pie hat was set very square on his head. 1948M. Allingham More Work for Undertaker xvii. 199 The inevitable green demob pork-pie sat a little too far back from his lined forehead. 1955Times 16 Aug. 8/7 The men had white handkerchiefs on their faces, and wore raincoats and ‘pork-pie’ hats. 1968R. Clapperton No News on Monday vi. 60, I..limped down the hot pavement with a straw pork pie tipped forward over my eyes. 1977New Yorker 25 July 61/2 Lawford, the arrant individualist, sometimes showed up on the court wearing a pork-pie hat, a striped jersey, tight knickers, and long stockings.
▸ Brit.Rhyming slang. A lie. Cf. porky pie n. at porky adj. Special uses.
1973B. Aylwin Load of Cockney Cobblers 43 Pork pie, a lie. 1990Times 1 Jan. 10/3 If I had been a lawyer, would I now be telling all those pork pies about my noble, selfless, admirable, wholly perfect profession? 1995Guardian 6 Oct. i. 7/2 He also shares a flat with Tim Allen, Blair's emollient junior press officer, and has a girlfriend who works for the ad agency which did the new Pattenesque ‘pork pies’ campaign about Tory fibs. 2000Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 11 Aug. 14 Whichever way you look at it the basic fact of the matter is that it was a lie. A downright pork pie. |