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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
pasty
I.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Cornish pasty
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Because the silica in andesite makes it thick and pasty, andesite tends to trap large amounts of gas.
▪ Beneath a top hat his face is pasty and bloated.
▪ Dinner was usually fried meat and pasty potatoes thrown on a chipped plate.
▪ Gone was the lively, glowing girl of the morning, in her place a pasty ghost.
▪ Pale spiky girl one side of a table, pale pasty boy the other.
▪ She smiles, and two dimples appear in her pasty cheeks, still shiny from last night's application of face cream.
▪ Slightly pasty and not as hot at the first visit, they were perfect the next time.
▪ Their pasty faces - the result of long periods underground - belie their extraordinary strength and tenacity.
II.noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Avoid quiches, pasties and meat pies, but don't be shy of the ubiquitous baked potato.
▪ Children often use dough in imitation of pastry; rolling, cutting and making cakes, pies or pasties.
▪ Hot pasties and hot drinks are served below deck at the bar, a comfort on chilly days.
▪ Martha brought him hot pasties every lunchtime from their cottage, to his place of work in the fields.
▪ She supposed that she wrongly still thought of pub meals in terms of bread and cheese or pasties.
▪ There were usually some vegetarian pasties and things going cheap.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pasty

Pasty \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.

Pasty

Pasty \Pas"ty\, a. Like paste, as in color, softness, stickness. ``A pasty complexion.''
--G. Eliot.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
pasty

c.1300, a type of pastry pie, from Old French paste "dough, pastry," from Vulgar Latin *pastata "meat wrapped in pastry" from Latin pasta (see pasta).

pasty

"resembling paste," 1650s, from paste (n.) + -y (2). Related: Pastiness.

Wiktionary
pasty

Etymology 1 a. 1 Like paste, sticky. 2 pale, lacking colour, having a pallor 3 (context slang offensive derogatory ethnic slur English) white-skinned n. (context chiefly in the plural English) A small item of clothing that conceals little more than the nipple of a woman's breast, primarily worn by female exotic dancers. Etymology 2

alt. A type of seasoned meat and vegetable pie, usually of a semicircular or distinctive shape. A (savory) hand pie. n. A type of seasoned meat and vegetable pie, usually of a semicircular or distinctive shape. A (savory) hand pie.

WordNet
pasty

  1. adj. resembling paste in color; pallid; "the looked pasty and red-eyed"; "a complexion that had been pastelike was now chalky white" [syn: pastelike]

  2. having the properties of glue [syn: gluey, glutinous, gummy, mucilaginous, sticky, viscid, viscous]

  3. n. small meat pie or turnover

  4. [also: pastiest, pastier]

Wikipedia
Pasty

A pasty (, ) is a baked pastry, a traditional variety of which is particularly associated with Cornwall, in the United Kingdom. It is made by placing an uncooked filling, typically meat and vegetables, on one half of a flat shortcrust pastry circle, folding the pastry in half to wrap the filling in a semicircle and crimping the curved edge to form a seal before baking.

The traditional Cornish pasty, which since 2011 has Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) status in Europe, is filled with beef, sliced or diced potato, swede (also known as yellow turnip or rutabaga – referred to in Cornwall as turnip) and onion, seasoned with salt and pepper, and is baked. Today, the pasty is the food most associated with Cornwall. It is regarded as the national dish and accounts for 6% of the Cornish food economy. Pasties with many different fillings are made and some shops specialise in selling all sorts of pasties.

The origins of the pasty are unclear, though there are many references to them throughout historical documents and fiction. The pasty is now popular world-wide due to the spread of Cornish miners, and variations can be found in Australia, the United States, Argentina, Mexico, Ulster and elsewhere.

Pasty (disambiguation)

Pasty or Pastie may refer to:

  • Pastie, a large, round patéd pie eaten in Northern Ireland
  • Pasties, adhesive coverings applied to cover a person's nipples
  • Pasty (plural pasties), a meat and vegetable-filled pastry case, associated with Cornwall and common in the United Kingdom
  • Pasty Harris (born 1944), English cricketer (from Cornwall)
  • "The pasties" ( Xerostomia), slang for dry mouth due to a lack of saliva
  • a pale and unhealthy appearance; pallor
  • an implementation of Pastebin
Pasty (horse)

Pasty (1 May 1973 – 12 February 1993) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare. She was the leading two-year-old filly of her generation in Britain in 1975 when she was undefeated in five races including the Lavant Stakes, Lowther Stakes and Cheveley Park Stakes. She failed to progress as a three-year-old and finished no better than fourth in her five races. She was then retired to become a broodmare and produced at least three minor winners.

Usage examples of "pasty".

The first course, put on the tables all at once, as were all the succeeding courses, consisted of tiny pasties full of codfish liver or beef marrow, a brewet of sliced pork in a spicy sauce, greasy fritters of more beef marrow, eels in a ginger-flavored aspic, bream fillets in a watery green sauce of herbs, a baron of tough and stringy beef for each pair of diners, boiled shoulders of pork and veal, and, to bring the course to an end, a seven-foot sturgeon, cooked whole and served with the skin replaced, surrounded by bowls of a sauce that Bass thought would have made a Mexican or Korean homesick, so hot was it.

The tables were filled with brewets and pasties and meat tiles together with jellies and fritters and plentiful ale.

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 smell of freshly baked pasties and roasting fowl filled the air, whetting her appetite.

But this is the farthest south and east of the yoopie you can get pasties, and they are particularly good.

Cornish pasties I had in Boscastle, though it is more than five years since I was here.

Cornish stone we ate steaming pasties and drank rough cold cider out of glazed earthenware mugs.

There was the warm sweet smell of pastry baking and she smiled and nodded her head when I told her how good her pasties were.

Maria had hesitated about donning the wings for a split second until Sonia produced two pairs of miniscule silver pasties from her pants pocket.

He reached up to her breasts and pulled off the sparkling pasties one at a time.

She cupped the familiar solid weight of her breasts, flicked the pasties off her nipples and traced the tingling hard points with her fingertips.

Something a little dressier than jeans should make a better impression on his supervisor and because they normally went bare-breasted, then maybe she better not wear any pasties on her nipples for this very important first meeting.

The first time they tried out the dragon wings, Sonia handed out pasties right and left.

Plain black pasties concealed the nipples of both human and reptilian females.

They bought something from every hawker they passed, meat pasties, black peas, roasted chestnuts, and hot cross buns.