Definition of PASTY

pasty

Meanings

Plural: pasties

Noun

  • small meat pie or turnover
  • (usually used in the plural) one of a pair of adhesive patches worn to cover the nipples of exotic dancers and striptease performers
  • Alternative spelling of pastie (“a small item of clothing that conceals little more than the nipple of a woman's breast, primarily worn by female exotic dancers”).
  • A type of seasoned meat and vegetable hand pie, usually of a semicircular shape.

Adjective Satellite

  • resembling paste in color; pallid
    • "he looked pasty and red-eyed"
  • having the sticky properties of an adhesive

Adj

  • Like paste, sticky.
  • Pale, lacking colour, having a pallor.
  • Whiteskinned.

Origin / Etymology

From paste + -y.

Synonyms

gluey, glutinous, gummy, mucilaginous, nipple pastie, nipple pasty, pastelike, sticky, viscid, viscous

Scrabble Score: 10

pasty is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
pasty is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
pasty is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 10

pasty is a valid Words With Friends word