apple-pie

plural apple-pies

1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative spelling of apple pie.

   Tea was served with a fragrant apple-pie.

   2015, Sulkhan Zhordania, “In the Beginning Was the Fist”, in The Asylum Seeker, Berlin: Pro BUSINESS, →ISBN, page 35

present singular third person apple-pies · participle present apple-pieing · participle past apple-pied · past apple-pied

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of apple pie.

   Pat was always ready for fun, especially when it came to apple-pieing beds.

   1955, Vox Collegii, page 43

   2 more examples

   “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.”

   1986, Audrey Thomas, Goodbye Harold, Good Luck, Viking, →ISBN, page 140

   At midnight, Elizabeth and her friends apple-pied the beds of her brother David and James, who was still being frustratingly elusive.

   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