Meaning of PASTY
| Pronunciation: | | [adj]'peystee, [n]'pâstee
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- [n] small meat pie or turnover
- [adj] having the properties of glue
- [adj] resembling paste in color; pallid; "the looked pasty and red-eyed"; "a complexion that had been pastelike was now chalky white"
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| | Synonyms: | | adhesive, colorless, colourless, gluey, glutinous, gummy, mucilaginous, pastelike, sticky, viscid, viscous |
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| | See Also: | | Cornish pasty, meat pie, pork pie | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Pas"ty\, a.
Like paste, as in color, softness, stickness. ``A pasty
complexion.'' --G. Eliot.
\Pas"ty\, n.; pl. {Pasties}. [OF. past['e], F. p[^a]t['e].
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.
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