Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A pie with a filling of molasses and brown sugar.
Wiktionary
- n. A fluffy pie made from molasses, traditional among the Pennsylvania Dutch.
WordNet 3.0
- n. open pie filled with a mixture of sweet crumbs and molasses
Etymologies
- So-called because the molasses attracts flies, which must be shooed away. (Wiktionary)
- So called because one will supposedly have to shoo away the flies attracted to the sweet filling. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘shoofly pie’.
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Pies: Just like Grandma Used to Make ...
Pies, Tarts, Turnovers, and other flaky or wrapped lovelies
wonton, whoopie pie, Washington pie, tourtiere, tortilla, torta, tiropita, Tarte Tatin, tarte au sucre, sweet potato pie, strawberry rhubar..., steak and kidney pie and 64 more...
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Public List: Free Association
Read the top word on the list and add a word that you associate with it. The association may be semantic, etymological, structural, literary, personal, etc.
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1. In t...mounch, mensch, trench, war, harmony, guitar, cigar, bubblegum, baseball cards, shortstop, bear, chained and 72 more...
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Lord of the Pies
Pastry words anyone?
crust, starry gazey pie, oven, pan, apple, blueberry, rhubarb, key lime, pumpkin, dough, flour, cherpumple and 17 more...
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lucidityprevails's Words
lucidity, journalistic, truthiness, foolhardy, egotism, lesbian, orgasmic, activism, moonglow, voodoo, conquer, demolish and 534 more...
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sweet
(often too sweet)
honeysuckle, nectarivore, mellifluous, honeyguide, honeyeater, nectar, honey-tube, nectary, honey fungus, blood sugar, noble cane, electuary and 21 more...
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Fun Food Names2
sunchoke, coconut egg jam, apple butter, peppercorns, dried cloud ears, ham hocks, kippered cod, rutabaga, salsify, scallion, wild leek, seaweed sheets and 48 more...
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Grocery List
...items noted on my dry-erase grocery list either by me or, if misspelled, by my husband or by my son who does it just to be funny.
elderberry juice, Stoli, provolone, agave nectar, sea salt, cinnamon, mozzarella, stevia, meusli, gouda, columbian coffee, cool-whip and 38 more...
Tweets
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yarb Shoofly? Don't bother me. Nov 10, 2011
sionnach From infundibulum by way of funnel cake. See Free Association Feb 5, 2008