pasty

English

Etymology 1

From paste +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) enPR: pāst'i, IPA^(key): /ˈpeɪsti/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• 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) Whiteskinned.
   • 2008, John Lacombe, Winter Games, page 184:

     He smoothed his tailored suit and red tie. "Boy, does it look like I ain't rich now? My pockets are already full of paper! Why the fuck would I want to risk doing business with some pasty cracker? For all I know, you a cop!"

   • 2010, James W. Lewis, Sellout, page 107:

     “So, snow bunny, what should black women do? How do we...oh, how do I say this... cure our brothas of this widespread, pasty disease?” I didn't reply. Again, I tried to step away. Again, she grabbed my arm.

Alternative forms

• pastey (rare)

Synonyms

• (sickly pale): See also Thesaurus:pallid

Translations

like paste, sticky

• Bulgarian: клисав (bg) (klisav)
• Dutch: pasteus
• Irish: taosach
• Portuguese: pastoso, pegajoso (pt), viscoso (pt)
• Spanish: pastoso (es), pegajoso (es)

pale, lacking colour

• Bulgarian: бледен (bg) (bleden)
• Dutch: bleek (nl)
• Finnish: kalpea (fi)
• Portuguese: pálido (pt)
• Spanish: pálido (es), opaco (es)
• Swedish: blek (sv)

Noun

Woman wearing pasties

pasty (plural pasties)

1. (chiefly in the plural) Alternative spelling of pastie (“a small item of clothing that conceals little more than the nipple of a woman's breast, primarily worn by female exotic dancers”).

   Synonyms: nipple pastie, nipple pasty

   • 1989, Joe David Bellamy, Suzi Sinzinnati: A Novel‎^[1], Pushcart Press, →ISBN, page 29:

     Nonchalantly she bared one succulent pasty-topped breast.

   • 2001, Irene Pence, Buried Memories‎^[2], Kensington Publishing Corporation, →ISBN, 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

   • 2004 February 2, Jake Drake, “Janet Jackson and American Slut Culture”, in rec.music.opera‎^[3] (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^[4], volume 2, Jeffry S. Hepple, →ISBN, 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."

Etymology 2

A Cornish pasty in a bowl

From Middle English paste, from Anglo-Norman paste and Old French pasté. Doublet of patty.

Alternative forms

• pastie

Pronunciation

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) enPR: păstʹi, IPA^(key): /ˈpæsti/
• (General Australian) enPR: pästʹi, IPA^(key): /ˈpɑːsti/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -æsti, -ɑːsti

Noun

pasty (plural pasties)

1. A type of seasoned meat and vegetable hand pie, usually of a semicircular shape.

Usage notes

The spelling pasty is preferred in the United Kingdom, but in Australia pastie is more common.

Derived terms

• Cornish pasty
• Karelian pasty
• nasty pasty
• party pasty
• Pastygate
• pasty tax
• windy pasty

Translations

A type of seasoned meat and vegetable pie

• Bulgarian: пастет m (pastet)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 餡餅／馅饼 (zh) (xiànbǐng)

• Cornish: pasti
• Dutch: pastei (nl) f
• Finnish: pasteija (fi), piirakka (fi)
• Galician: empanada (gl) f
• Greek: μπουρέκι (el) n (bouréki)
• Irish: pastae m
• Russian: пирожо́к (ru) m (pirožók)
• Slovak: piroh m
• Spanish: empanada (es) f
• Welsh: pastai f, pasten f

See also

• meat pie
• sausage roll
• BBC: Who, What, Why: What exactly is a Cornish pasty?

Anagrams

• Patsy, Tyaps, patsy

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpas.tɘ/
• Rhymes: -astɘ
• Syllabification: pas‧ty

Noun

pasty f

1. inflection of pasta:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural