Pasty \Pas"ty\, a.
Like paste, as in color, softness, stickness. "A pasty
complexion." --G. Eliot.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
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A large pasty baked in a pewter platter. --Sir W.
Scott.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
pasty
adj 1: 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]
n : small meat pie or turnover
[also: pastiest, pastier]
WordNet (r) 2.0
147 Moby Thesaurus words for "pasty":
Danish pastry, French pastry, achromatic, achromic, adhesive,
amylaceous, anemic, ashen, ashy, baccate, baklava, bled white,
blintz, bloodless, cadaverous, chloranemic, chocolate eclair,
clabbered, clammy, clayey, clotted, coagulated, colorless,
cream puff, curdled, dead, deadly pale, deathly pale, dim, dimmed,
dingy, discolored, doughy, dowdy, dull, eclair, etiolated,
exsanguinated, exsanguine, exsanguineous, faded, faint, fallow,
flabby, flat, fleshy, gaumy, gelatinous, ghastly, glairy, gluelike,
gluey, glutenous, glutinose, glutinous, gooey, gray, grumous,
gumbo, gumbolike, gumlike, gummous, gummy, haggard, heavy, hueless,
hypochromic, inspissated, jelled, jellied, jellylike, lackluster,
leaden, livid, loamy, lurid, lusterless, macerated, masticated,
mat, mealy, mucilaginous, muddy, mushy, neutral, pale,
pale as death, pale-faced, pallid, pandowdy, pastry, patisserie,
patty, patty-shell, pie, pithy, puff, pulpal, pulpar, pulped,
pulplike, pulpy, quiche, ropy, rosette, sallow, sickly, slabby,
slimy, slithery, soft, spongy, squashy, squelchy, squishy, starchy,
sticky, stodgy, stringy, strudel, succulent, syrupy, tacky,
tallow-faced, tart, tenacious, thick, thickened, timbale,
tipsy cake, toneless, tough, tremelloid, tremellose, trifle,
turnover, uncolored, viscid, viscose, viscous, vol-au-vent, wan,
washed-out, waxen, weak, whey-faced, white
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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