shoofly pie

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   open pie filled with a mixture of sweet crumbs and molasses

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Questions about shoofly pie

What does shoofly pie mean?

shoofly pie means "open pie filled with a mixture of sweet crumbs and molasses".

Is shoofly pie a common word?

shoofly 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.