# pieman

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. A man who sells pies.
2. The man who called heads or tails in street gambling games of coin tossing.

## Etymology
* From Middle English pyman (attested as a surname), equivalent to pie + -man.
* (caller in gambling games): Such games were once often run by sellers of pies as a sideline.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/pieman