dirt-pie
Mud or wet earth formed by children into a shape like a pie; a mud-pie.
| a 1641 Suckling (J.), That which has newly left off making of dirt-pies, and is but preparing itself for a green-sickness. 1695 Congreve Love for L. iv. xiii, And for the young Woman..I thought it more fitting for her to learn her Sampler, and make Dirt-Pies, than to look after a Husband. a 1734 North Exam. iii. vi. §64 (1740) 470 Their Towns..gave Way like Dirt Pyes before his Army. 1793 Burke Policy of Allies Wks. VII. 159 Busy in the confection of the dirt-pyes of their imaginary constitutions. 1854 Thackeray J. Leech's Pict. (1869) 333 Poor little ragged Polly making dirt-pies in the gutter. |