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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. small meat pie or turnover;

2. (usually used in the plural) one of a pair of adhesive patches worn to cover the nipples of exotic dancers and striptease performers;


ADJECTIVE (2)

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

2. having the sticky properties of an adhesive;
[syn: gluey, glutinous, gummy, mucilaginous, pasty, sticky, viscid, viscous]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

pasty
    adj 1: resembling paste in color; pallid; "he looked pasty and
           red-eyed"; "a complexion that had been pastelike was now
           chalky white" [syn: pasty, pastelike]
    2: having the sticky properties of an adhesive [syn: gluey,
       glutinous, gummy, mucilaginous, pasty, sticky,
       viscid, viscous]
    n 1: small meat pie or turnover
    2: (usually used in the plural) one of a pair of adhesive
       patches worn to cover the nipples of exotic dancers and
       striptease performers