pie2 (c.1170)
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pie2 (c.1170)

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[ FEW: 8,420b pica; Gdf: 6,44c pie2; GdfC: 10,334b pie; TL: 7,877 pie; DEAF:  pie 1; DMF:  pie 1; TLF:  pie 1; OED:  pie n.1; MED:  pi(e n.1; DMLBS: 2273a pica 1 ]
piet,  pye; 
pl. pyez  

For pie2 used to reinforce a negation, see Möhren, Le renforcement affectif de la negation, p. 188. As the expression used in Horn 2764 is also found in Continental French, it seems less plausible to interpret it as an instance of pie1.

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1orn.zool.magpie, bird with black and white plumage and a long pointed tail, Pica pica: 
( c.1185 )  Le bon cheval neir cume pie  8998
( c.1230; MS: 1275-85 )  Aver de sen pire est ke pie Ki autre luer ne vult rendre  162
( s.xiiim; MS: s.xiiiex )  Le vent se fiert es voilles qe plus tost les gwie Qe nus falcons ne voille quant il chace la pie  318
( MS: c.1250 )  De avibus [...] Hec pica: pie  i 419
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  crere sorpie (l. sor pie) ou sour songes ou sor nule sorcerie  40.16
cote de la pie
1costumecolourblack and white tunic: 
( 1374 )  les gentz de l’ercevesqe de Dyvelyn, chanceller, tresorer et garsouns del estable plus qe cent [...] furont vestutz en cotes de la pye blank et noir  193
frere pie
1monasticcoloureccl.Friar of the Pie, friar of an order wearing black and white habits: 
( c.1450 )  Fratrum quos ‘Freres Pyes’ veteres appellabant  pie n.1
ne aver le vaillant d’une pie
1to be worthless: 
( c.1170; MS: s.xiiiex )  Qu’ele n’out un d’icés [le] vaillant [d’]une pie (var. fie (H)MS: s.xiiim)  2764
pievol 
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