Pasty
['pæstɪ] or ['pæsti]
Definition
(noun.) (usually used in the plural) one of a pair of adhesive patches worn to cover the nipples of exotic dancers and striptease performers.
(noun.) small meat pie or turnover.
(adj.) resembling paste in color; pallid; 'he looked pasty and red-eyed'; 'a complexion that had been pastelike was now chalky white' .
Editor: Solomon--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Like paste, as in color, softness, stickness.
(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.
Editor: Lois
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Meat-pie.
Inputed by Effie
Definition
adj. like paste.—n. a small pie of meat and crust baked without a dish.
Edited by Ivan
Examples
- That apple-peel is to be eaten by the pigs, Ben; if you eat it, I must give them your piece of pasty. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- 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. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- There was a venison pasty, of all things, a large broad-faced cut ham, eggs and cresses and red beet-root, and medlars and apple-tart, and tea. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- That grayish, pasty mass is wet fulminate of mercury. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Good cheer had opened his heart, for he left me a nook of pasty and a flask of wine, instead of my former fare. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- And as there were no forks in those days, his clutches were instantly in the bowels of the pasty. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- On an eel-pasty he particularly doted. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Typist: Nicholas