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Webster 1913 Edition


Pasty

Pas′ty

,
Adj.
Like paste, as in color, softness, stickness.
“A pasty complexion.”
G. Eliot.

Pas′ty

,
Noun.
;
pl.
Pasties
(#)
.
[OF.
pasté
, F.
pâté
. See
Paste
, and cf.
Patty
.]
A pie consisting usually of meat wholly surrounded with a crust made of a sheet of paste, and often baked without a dish; a meat pie.
“If ye pinch me like a pasty.”
Shak.
“Apple pasties.”
Dickens.
A large
pasty
baked in a pewter platter.
Sir W. Scott.

Webster 1828 Edition


Pasty

PASTY

,
Adj.
Like paste; of the consistence of paste.

PASTY

,
Noun.
[from paste.] A pie made of paste and baked without a dish.

Definition 2024


pasty

pasty

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US) enPR: pāst'i, IPA(key): /ˈpeɪsti/
  • Homophone: pastie
  • Rhymes: -eɪsti

Adjective

pasty (comparative pastier, superlative pastiest)

  1. Like paste, sticky.
    These mashed potatoes aren’t cooked well, they are very pasty.
  2. pale, lacking colour, having a pallor
    He is pasty-faced.
    (figuratively) He was feeling pasty.
    Are you feeling OK? You look a bit pasty.
  3. (slang, offensive, derogatory, ethnic slur) white-skinned
Synonyms
  • (sickly pale): See also Wikisaurus:pallid
Translations

Noun

pasty (plural pasties)

  1. (chiefly in the plural) A small item of clothing that conceals little more than the nipple of a woman's breast, primarily worn by female exotic dancers.
    • 1989, Joe David Bellamy, Suzi Sinzinnati: A Novel, Pushcart Press, ISBN 9780916366568, page 29:
      Nonchalantly she bared one succulent pasty-topped breast.
    • 2001, Irene Pence, Buried Memories, Kensington Publishing Corporation, ISBN 0786012633, page 52:
      One of the experienced dancers dabbed a bit of rubber cement inside a silver-sequinned pasty and told Betty to place it over her nipple
    • 2016 February 2, Jake Drake, “Janet Jackson and American **** Culture”, in rec.music.opera, Usenet:
      There really is no other purpose for wearing a pasty than to avoid being arrested for indecency.
    • 2009, Jeffry S. Hepple, “Mancha, Mexico”, in The Treasure of La Malinche, volume 2, Jeffry S. Hepple, ISBN 9780984118229, page 164:
      "What's a pasty?" ¶ "That's what strippers and showgirls used to wear to cover their nipples in teh old, tamer days of yore. They were round paper disks with spangles on one side and paste on the other; hence the term pasty."
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Etymology 2

From Anglo-Norman paste and Old French pasté.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • (UK) enPR: păst'i, IPA(key): /ˈpæsti/
  • Rhymes: -æsti
  • (Australia) enPR: päst'i, IPA(key): /ˈpɑːsti/
  • Rhymes: -ɑːsti

Noun

pasty (plural pasties)

  1. A type of seasoned meat and vegetable pie, usually of a semicircular or distinctive shape. A (savory) hand pie.
Usage notes

The spelling pasty is considered correct in the United Kingdom but in Australia the spelling pastie is the more common.

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