cottage pie

1. 1.

   a dish of minced meat topped with mashed potatoes

   Broaderdish

   United Kingdom

Questions about cottage pie

What does cottage pie mean?

cottage pie means "a dish of minced meat topped with mashed potatoes".

Is cottage pie a common word?

cottage pie is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.