apple-pie

See also: apple pie

English

Noun

apple-pie (plural apple-pies)

1. 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)

1. 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.