Definitions for: Pasty


[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"



Webster (1913) Definition: 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.

Synonyms: adhesive, colorless, colourless, gluey, glutinous, gummy, mucilaginous, pastelike, sticky, viscid, viscous

See Also: Cornish pasty, meat pie, pork pie

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