单词 | chess pie |
释义 | chess pie in American English a dessert made of a custardlike mixture of butter, sugar, eggs, etc., baked in a pie shell chess pie in American Englishnoun Southern U.S. Cookery a dessert of cornmeal, sugar, butter, egg yolks, milk, and flavorings baked in a pastry shell Word origin [1930–35; appar. for chest pie; chest perh. alluding to its depth]This word is first recorded in the period 1930–35. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: boondoggle, logical positivism, preset, uncertainty principle, video |
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