English Explanatory Dictionary

stargazy pie

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A Cornish dish of baked pilchards, covered with a pastry crust, arranged with their tails toward the centre of the pie and their heads poking up through the crust.

Word forms

stargazy pie stargazy pies stargazey pie starry-gazy pie

Etymology

From stargaze + -y and pie, the upturned fish seeming to stare skywards.

This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.
Back to search All on S Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary