pasty Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun small meat pie or turnover
  2. noun (usually used in the plural) one of a pair of adhesive patches worn to cover the nipples of exotic dancers and striptease performers
  3. adjective satellite resembling paste in color; pallid
    pastelike.
    • he looked pasty and red-eyed
    • a complexion that had been pastelike was now chalky white
  4. adjective satellite having the sticky properties of an adhesive
    gluey; gummy; glutinous; sticky; mucilaginous; viscid; viscous.

WordNet

Pas"ty adjective
Definitions
  1. Like paste, as in color, softness, stickness. "A pasty complexion." G. Eliot.
Pas"ty noun
Etymology
OF. pasté, F. pâté. See Paste, and cf. Patty.
Wordforms
plural Pasties
Definitions
  1. 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.

Webster 1913