I was impressed to read the Oxford English Dictionary attribute the phrase Shut you pie hole,’ to Stephen King. The OED says, ‘The earliest known use of the noun pie hole is from 1983, in the writing of Stephen King, novelist,’ in his novel Christine. Looking into this subject further, however, (going down the pie hole, as it were) I learned that a character in Sally Field’s 1979 movie Norma Rae, written by Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank, tells her, ‘Norma, shut your cake hole!’ So I’m less impressed with Stephen King and the OED. They should shut their pie hole.
by hiker201
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Stephen King should always remember this: Pie are round. Cake are square.
The term “cake hole” was used in Britain during World War II and recorded in the book *Service Slang* written by Hunt and Pringle in 1943. “Pie hole” seems to have replaced it, but it’s a variation on the same theme.