apple-pie
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See also: apple pie
English
Noun
apple-pie (countable and uncountable, plural apple-pies)
- Alternative spelling of apple pie
Verb
apple-pie (third-person singular simple present apple-pies, present participle apple-pieing, simple past and past participle apple-pied)
- Alternative spelling of apple pie
- 1955, Vox Collegii, page 43:
- Pat was always ready for fun, especially when it came to apple-pieing beds.
- 1986, Audrey Thomas, Goodbye Harold, Good Luck, Viking, →ISBN, page 140:
- “There’s something the matter with the God[-]damned bed. I can’t get in.” He stood there, naked and cross in the candlelight. Martha turned back the covers. “They’ve apple-pied the bed.” “They’ve what?” “Apple-pied, short-sheeted. Didn’t you ever do that when you were young?” “The little brats.” “It’ll only take a minute of fix; it’s just the top sheet.”
- 2012, Lady Colin Campbell, The Queen Mother: The Untold Story of Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, Who Became Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page 91:
- At midnight, Elizabeth and her friends apple-pied the beds of her brother David and James, who was still being frustratingly elusive.