custard-pie
adjective
: slapstick : relating to or marked by broadest comedy
custard-pie antics
Word History
Etymology
so called from the frequent pie-throwing battles waged in early motion-picture comedies
- after-action report
- after-burden
- after-burthen
- after-dark
- after-dinner cup
- after-feather
- after-five
- after-hours
- after-party
- after-run
- after-sales
- after-school
- after-tax
- after-the-fact
- afterbath
- afterbay
- afterbeat
- afterbirth
- afterbirths
- afterblow
- afterbody
- afterburn
- afterburner
- afterburners
- afterburning