Short for French parfait (parfait glacée), an iced dessert made with egg yolks, sugar, cream, and flavouring (usually fruit), sometimes with the addition of a liqueur.

adjective (fr-infl-adj, sm=parfait, sf=parfaite, pm=parfaits, pf=parfaites, smp=paÊ�.fÉ�, sfp=paÊ�.fÉ�t, pmp=paÊ�.fÉ�, pfp=paÊ�.fÉ�t)
m, parfaite f

perfect (exactly right)

Le déjeuner était parfait

:The lunch was perfect

perfect (tense)

parmesan

noun

A hard, full-fat Italian cheese from Parma

parmigiana

adjective

cooked or served with Parmesan cheese

pasta

noun (uncountable)

Pieces of dough made from wheat and water sometimes mixed with egg used in various cuisines; it is often sold in dried form, and comes in a variety of shapes.

paste

noun

A soft mixture, in particular:

One of flour, fat, or similar ingredients used in making pastry.
One of pounded foods, such as fish paste, liver paste, or tomato paste.
One used as an adhesive, esp. for putting up wallpapers, etc.
1. A hard lead-containing glass, or an artificial gemstone made from this glass.

verb (past, ing)

(transitive) To stick with paste; to cause to adhere by or as if by paste.
(context, intransitive, computing) To insert a piece of text previously copied or cut from somewhere else.
(transitive) To strike or beat someone or something.

pastrami

noun

A seasoned smoked cut of beef

pastry

noun (plural: pastries)

a baked food group which contains items made from flour and fat pastes such as pie crust; also tarts, bear claws, napoleans, puff pastries, etc.

pate

noun (plural pates)

The top of the head.

He had a shiny, bald .

Patty

proper noun

(given name, female, ) Diminutive of Patricia, a female given name.

peach

noun (peaches)

A small Chinese tree (Prunus persica), widely cultivated throughout temperate regions, having pink flowers and edible fruit.
The soft juicy fruit of the peach tree, having yellow flesh, downy, red-tinted yellow skin, and a deeply sculptured pit or stone containing a single seed.
(colour) A light moderate to strong yellowish pink to light orange color.

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1. (informal) A particularly admirable or pleasing person or thing.
2. The large, edible berry of the Sarcocephalus esculentus, a rubiaceous climbing shrub of west tropical Africa.
3. The name of a princess in the video game series, Super Mario. Her last name is Toadstool. She is constantly kidnapped by Bowser.

adjective

(colour) Of the color peach.
Particularly pleasing or agreeable.

Peach Melba

noun

(gastronomy) : classic French dessert, combing peaches and raspberry sauce accompanied with vanilla ice cream.

peanut butter

noun

A spread made from ground peanuts.

Peking duck

noun (uncountable)

A dish consisting of roasted duck skin, small pancakes, and hoisin sauce and other condiments.

pemmican

noun

A food made from meat which has been dried and beaten into a paste, mixed with berry, berries and rendered fat, and shaped into little patties.
An emergency ration of meat and fruit.

penne

noun

A type of short, diagonally cut pasta.

pepperoni

noun

A spicy Italian sausage.
A slice of pizza.

Yo Tony, gimme a slice of and a coke.

adjective

pizza covered in slices of .
(rare) anything covered in slices of .

pepper pot

noun

A small container with a perforated top used for sprinkling ground pepper

percolate

noun

A liquid that has been percolated.

verb (percolates, percolating, percolated)

(transitive) To pass a liquid through a porous substance; to filter.
(intransitive) To drain or seep through a porous substance.

Water percolates through sand.
(transitive) To make (coffee) in a percolator.

I'll percolate some coffee.
(intransitive) (figurative) To spread slowly or gradually; to slowly become noticed or realised.

Reports on the pitiful state of many prisons have finally perlocated through to the Home Office, which has promised to look into the situation.

Through media reports it percolated to the suface that the police investigation was profoundly flawed.

percolator

noun

A device used to brew coffee by boiling water under pressure through coffee grounds

pesto

noun

A sauce, especially for pasta, originating from the Genoa region, made from basil, garlic, pine nuts, olive oil and cheese (usually Pecorino)

phyllo

noun

A type of dough, originating in Mediterranean cuisine, that is used in thin layers to make pastry, pastries (such as baklava and apple strudel) and pies and becomes very flaky when cooked

piccalilli

noun

A yellow pickle made from cauliflower and other vegetables, vinegar, salt, sugar and spices.

piccata

adjective

Sliced, sautéed and served with lemon, parsley and butter sauce.

- 1999: Rattle-snake with grapes and figs, old Brown Betty with a yellow wig " Tom Waits, "Filipino Box Spring Hog"

pickle

noun

A cucumber preserved in a solution, usually a brine or a vinegar syrup.

A goes well with a hamburger.

Often in plural (pickles), any vegetable preserved in vinegar and consumed as relish.
The brine used for preserving food.

This tub is filled with the that we will put the small cucumbers into.

A difficult situation.

The climber found himself in a when one of the rocks broke off.

(slang) A penis.
(baseball) A rundown.

Jones was caught in a between second and third.

A children's game with three participants that emulates a baseball rundown

The boys played in the front yard for an hour.

An affectionate term for a loved one

Are you okay my ?

verb (pickl, es)

To preserve food in a salt, sugar or vinegar solution.

We pickled the remainder of the crop.

To remove high-temperature scale and oxidation from metal with heated sulphuric acid.

The crew will the fittings in the morning.

pickled

adjective

preserved by pickling

(slang) drunk

PIE

initialism

(linguistics) Proto-Indo-European (the protolanguage of most modern European and Indic languages)

pipe

noun ]]

A hollow tube that transports water, steam, or other liquid; usually made of metal, ceramic, wood, or plastic.
A hollow stem with bowl at one end used for smoking (see also water pipe or bong)
(geology) A vertical conduit through the Earth's crust below a volcano, through which magma has passed; often filled with volcanic breccia
A type of pasta, similar to macaroni
Decorative edging stitched to the hems or seams of an object made of fabric (clothing, hats, pillows, curtains, etc.); often a contrasting color
(music) A hollow tube used to produce sound, such as an organ pipe.
(music) A wind instrument making a whistling sound. (see pan pipes, bagpipe, boatswain's pipe)
(lacrosse) One of the goalposts of the goal.
(computing) The ASCII character at position 124 (decimal), 7C (hex), 01111100 (binary): " , "
(computing) In Unix, the pipe character signifies that the output of one program feeds directly as input to another program.
(context, computing, slang) A data backbone, or broadband Internet access (e.g., a "fat pipe" refers to a high-bandwidth connection).
(obsolete) An English measure of capacity for liquids, containing 126 wine gallons; half a ton.

- 1882: Again, by 28 Hen. VIII, cap. 14, it is re-enacted that the tun of wine should contain 252 gallons, a butt of Malmsey 126 gallons, a pipe 126 gallons, a tercian or puncheon 84 gallons, a hogshead 63 gallons, a tierce 41 gallons, a barrel 31.5 gallons, a rundlet 18.5 gallons. — James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, p. 205.
  1. (context, AU, colloquial, obsolete) An anonymous satire or essay, insulting and frequently libelous, written on a piece of paper and left somewhere public where it could be found and thus spread, to embarrass the author's enemies.
  1818: yet, it is much to be hoped, that from his example pipe-making will in future be reposed solely in the hands of Mr. William Cluer of the Brickfield Hill. — w:Sydney Gazette, Sydney Gazette, 26 September 1818, on w:William Bland, William Bland convicted of libelling w:Lachlan Macquarie, Governor Macquarie in a pipe (William Cluer was an earthenware pipe manufacturer). Quoted in More Pig Bites Baby! Stories from Australia's First Newspaper, volume 2, ed. Micahel Connor, Duffy and Snellgrove, 2004, ISBN 1-876631-91-0.

verb (pip, ing)

To convey or transport something by means of pipes.
To install or configure pipes.
To play music on a pipe instrument, such as a bagpipe.
(nautical) To signal or order by a note pattern on a bosun's pipe.
To decorate a cake using a pastry bag a flexible bag from which icing is forced through a small nozzle to make various designs

piping

verb

(present participle of, pipe)
To dab away moisture.
- 1883: w:Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Louis Stevenson, w:Treasure Island, Treasure Island
- : Our chimney was a square hole in the roof: it was but a little part of the smoke that found its way out, and the rest eddied about the house, and kept us coughing and the eye.

adjective

High-pitched.

His piping voice could be heard above the hubbub.

pistachio

noun

A deciduous tree, Pistacia vera, grown in parts of Asia for its drupaceous fruit
The nutlike fruit of this tree

PITA

noun

(acronym) pain in the ass, Pain in the ass, pain in the arse.

pizza

noun (pl2=pizze)

A baked Italian dish of a thinly rolled bread dough crust (or a thick dough) typically topped with tomato sauce, cheese and other ingredients.

plasma

noun

(physics) A state of matter consisting of fully ionized gas
1. A clear component of blood or lymph containing fibrin
2. blood plasma, Blood plasma, free of suspended cells, used in transfusions

plate

noun

A serving dish or food course.

We filled our plate from the bountiful table.

A flat metallic object of uniform thickness.

A clutch usually has two plates.

(weightlifting) A weighted disk, usually of metal, with a hole in the center for use with a barbell, dumbbell, or exercise machine.
(printing) An engraved surface used to transfer an image to paper.

We finished making the plates this morning.

(context, printing, photography) An image or copy.
(dentistry) A shaped and fitted surface, usually ceramic or metal that fits into the mouth and in which teeth are implanted; a dental plate.
(construction) A horizontal framing member at the top or bottom of a group of vertical studs.
A decorative or food service item coated with silver.

The tea was served in the .

(Cockney rhyming slang) feet, from "plates of meat".

"Sit down and give your plates a rest"

(baseball) home plate; where the batter stands next to

There was a close play at the .

(geology) tectonic plate

verb (plat, ing)

To cover the surface material of an object with a thin coat of another material, usually a metal.

This ring is plated with a thin layer of gold.

To place the various elements of a meal on the diner's plate prior to serving.

After preparation, the chef will the dish.

To perform cunnilingus.

He fingered her as he plated her with his tongue.

pluck

noun

nerve, Nerve, fortitude, or persistence.

He didn't get far with the attempt, but you have to admire his .

The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals.

verb (plucks, plucking, plucked or obsolete, pluckt)

(transitive) To pull something sharply; to pull something out

She plucked the phone from her bag and phoned her friend.

(context, transitive, music) To gently play a single string, e.g. on a guitar, violin, etc.

Whereas a piano strikes the string, a harpsichord plucks it.

To remove feathers from a bird.

plum pudding

noun (plural: plum puddings)

A pudding, cooked by boiling or steaming, and containing a large amount of dried fruit.

poacher

noun

A person who trespasses in order to take game illegally
A vessel with shallow cuplike compartments in which eggs are cooked over boiling water

poi

noun

A national food of the Hawaiians, made by bake, baking and pound, pounding the kalo (or taro) root, and reduce, reducing it to a thin paste, which is allowed to ferment.

A pair of roughly arm-length chains with loop handles attached to one end and bundle of wicking material on the other used in fire dancing (fire spinning). Poi used for practice may also consist of a fabric streamer with a light weight, such as a beanbag, at the leading edge.

polenta

noun

any of various types and consistencies of a starchy accompaniment to a meal made from coarse maize-meal porridge, sometimes fried or grilled

popover

noun

a light hollow muffin, resembling an individual Yorkshire pudding

porridge

noun

A hot breakfast cereal dish made from oatmeal, milk and, or water heated and stirred until thick; eaten with a little salt in Scotland, or a little sugar or honey in England

- Eat your while it's hot!
  1. (British slang) A prison sentence
- Just do your and keep your head down

potage

noun

a thick creamy soup

potpie

noun

A pie, having pastry sides and bottom, and filled with meat etc
A dish of meat and vegetable stew with dumplings

pottage

noun

a thick soup or stew

pound cake

noun

A dense yellow cake; the traditional recipe consists of a pound (unit of weight) each of butter, eggs, flour, and sugar.

preserve

noun

a sweet spread made of any of a variety of berries
a nature preserve

verb (preserv, ing)

To protect; to keep; to maintain the condition of.

primavera

adjective

Describing a light vegetable sauce, especially one served with pasta

processed cheese

noun

Any of several types of natural cheese that are pasteurized to lengthen storage life and combined with emulsifiers to aid smoothness. In some cases processed cheeses contain added colorings and preservatives.

profiterole

noun

A small, hollow case of choux pastry with a filling

prosciutto

noun (prosciutti, pl2=prosciuttos)

A dry-cured ham from Italy.

prove

verb (proves, proving, proved, proved or proven)

(transitive) To demonstrate that something is true; to give proof for.

I will my method is more effective than yours.

The hypothesis has not been proven to our satisfaction.

To turn out; to manifest.

It proved to be a cold day.

Have an exit strategy should your calculations incorrect.

pudding

noun

A type of cake or dessert cooked usually by boiling or steaming.
Any of various savoury dishes prepared in a similar way to a sweet pudding (eg, meat pudding) or from batter (eg, Yorkshire pudding)
(context, UK) A dessert.

We have apple pie for today.

A sausage made primarily from blood.
A type of dessert that has a texture similar to custard or mousse but using some kind of starch as the thickening agent.
(slang) An overweight person.

puff

noun

(countable) A sharp exhalation of a small amount of breath through the mouth.
(uncountable) The ability to breathe easily while exerting oneself.

out of puff

(countable) A small quantity of gas or smoke in the air.

puff of smoke

puff of wind

(context, informal, countable) An act of inhale, inhaling smoke from a cigarette, cigar or pipe.
(context, uncountable, slang) The drug cannabis.
(countable) A light cake filled with cream, cream cheese, etc.

cream puff

(context, derogatory, slang, UK, particularly northern UK) a homosexual; a poof

verb

(intransitive) To emit smoke, gas, etc., in puffs.
(intransitive) To pant.
(transitive) To advertise (archaic)

puree

noun

A food that has been ground or crushed into a thick liquid (e.g. tomato sauce is generally a puree).

verb (purees, pureeing, pureed)

To crush or grind food into a puree.

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