shoofly pie
shoofly pie · shoofly pies
A fluffy pie made from molasses with a crumb cake top, traditional among the…A fluffy pie made from molasses with a crumb cake top, traditional among the Pennsylvania Dutch.
/ʃuː.flaɪ.paɪ/
Meaning
1 senses(countable, uncountable)A fluffy pie made from molasses with a crumb cake top, traditional among the Pennsylvania Dutch.
More definitions
- open pie filled with a mixture of sweet crumbs and molasses
Origin
From shoo + fly + pie. Named after the Shoofly molasses company, which was named after "ShFrom shoo + fly + pie. Named after the Shoofly molasses company, which was named after "Shoofly the Boxing Mule" (a circus attraction of the period), which was named after a Civil-War-era folk song called "Shoo Fly, Don't Bother Me". Not related to the idea of shooing flies away from the sweet filling.
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Forms
plural: shoofly piesSynonyms
1 synonymsshoofly cake
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable