pieman
Meanings
noun
- A man who sells pies.
- The man who called heads or tails in street gambling games of coin tossing.
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Etymology
* 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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