Definition of pasty Pasty

pastβ€’y

We found 13 definitions of pasty from 5 different sources.

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What does pasty mean?

WordNet

WordNet by Princeton University

Noun

Plural: pasties

pasty - small meat pie or turnover
  meat pie pie made with meat or fowl enclosed in pastry or covered with pastry or biscuit dough
  cornish pasty meat pie with filling of meat and vegetables
pasty - (usually used in the plural) one of a pair of adhesive patches worn to cover the nipples of exotic dancers and striptease performers

Adjective

pasty, pastier, pastiest

pasty - resembling paste in color; pallid; "he looked pasty and red-eyed"; "a complexion that had been pastelike was now chalky white"
  pastelike
  colorless, colourless weak in color; not colorful
pasty - having the sticky properties of an adhesive
  gluey, glutinous, gummy, mucilaginous, sticky, viscid, viscous
  adhesive tending to adhere
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Wiktionary Wiktionary dictionary logo

  • pasty (Noun)
    A small item of clothing that conceals little more than the nipple of a woman's breast, primarily worn by female exotic dancer s.
  • pasty (Noun)
    A white person.
  • pasty (Noun)
    A type of seasoned meat and vegetable pie, usually of a semicircular or distinctive shape. A savory hand pie .
  • pasty (Adjective)
    Like paste, sticky.
  • pasty (Adjective)
    pale, lacking colour, having a pallor.

Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary πŸ“˜

  • pasty (a.)
    Like paste, as in color, softness, stickness.
  • pasty (n.)
    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.

Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary πŸ“•

  • pasty
    pāsβ€²ti, adj. like paste.β€”n. a small pie of meat and crust baked without a dish

Part of speech

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  • pasty, noun, singular of pasties.
  • pasty, adjective.

Pronunciation

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