PASTY (pastier, pastiest)

Pronunciation (US):

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Irregular inflected forms: pastier    , pastiest   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does pasty mean? 

• PASTY (noun)
  The noun PASTY has 2 senses:

1. small meat pie or turnover

2. (usually used in the plural) one of a pair of adhesive patches worn to cover the nipples of exotic dancers and striptease performers

  Familiarity information: PASTY used as a noun is rare.

• PASTY (adjective)
  The adjective PASTY has 2 senses:

1. resembling paste in color; pallid

2. having the sticky properties of an adhesive

  Familiarity information: PASTY used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PASTY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small meat pie or turnover

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("pasty" is a kind of...):

meat pie (pie made with meat or fowl enclosed in pastry or covered with pastry or biscuit dough)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pasty"):

Cornish pasty (meat pie with filling of meat and vegetables)

pork pie (small pie filled with minced seasoned pork)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(usually used in the plural) one of a pair of adhesive patches worn to cover the nipples of exotic dancers and striptease performers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("pasty" is a kind of...):

patch (a piece of cloth used as decoration or to mend or cover a hole)

• PASTY (adjective)

Comparative: pastier   
Superlative: pastiest   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Resembling paste in color; pallid

Synonyms:

pastelike; pasty

Context example:

a complexion that had been pastelike was now chalky white

Similar:

colorless; colourless (weak in color; not colorful)

Derivation:

paste (an adhesive made from water and flour or starch; used on paper and paperboard)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Having the sticky properties of an adhesive

Synonyms:

gluey; glutinous; gummy; mucilaginous; pasty; sticky; viscid; viscous

Similar:

adhesive (tending to adhere)

Derivation:

paste (an adhesive made from water and flour or starch; used on paper and paperboard)

 Context examples 

“Then I must back to my pasty,” said Sir Oliver.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I can see him now, with yellow, pasty face, drooping lids, and pin-point pupils, all huddled in a chair, the wreck and ruin of a noble man.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This thievish leg is to hang at Milton, and the other is already at Brockenhurst, as a sign to all men of what comes of being over-fond of venison pasty.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He had put his pack down as a table, and the two of them were devouring a great pasty, and washing it down with some drink from a stone jar.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I had forgot the pasty, and it will be as scorched as Judas Iscariot!

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Within an hour the guests were seated around a board which creaked under the great pasties and joints of meat, varied by those more dainty dishes in which the French excelled, the spiced ortolan and the truffled beccaficoes.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Why, my little coz, said he, I have come across to tell you that I live above the barber's in the Rue de la Tour, and that there is a venison pasty in the oven and two flasks of the right vintage on the table.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Roasted peacocks, with the feathers all carefully replaced, so that the bird lay upon the dish even as it had strutted in life, boars' heads with the tusks gilded and the mouth lined with silver foil, jellies in the shape of the Twelve Apostles, and a great pasty which formed an exact model of the king's new castle at Windsor—these were a few of the strange dishes which faced him.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)