pasty
1pasties, a pair of small, cuplike coverings for the nipples of a stripper, nude model, etc.
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Other definitions for pasty (2 of 2)
a pie filled with game, fish, or the like.
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How to use pasty in a sentence
The main downside of physical sunscreen, Karen explains, is that it can leave a chalky or pasty appearance on the skin.
So, if your wax is really pasty and stinky, it’s another thing you can blame on your parents.
Depending on where you live, Sunday’s winter weather event may have left behind up to five inches of pasty snow or nothing but bare ground.
After Sunday’s slush fest, another winter storm threatens by Wednesday night | Jason Samenow, Wes Junker | February 8, 2021 | Washington PostSince The Great White Way was given that strange moniker in 1890, the majority of actors have also bore a pasty complexion.
The Tupac Musical Hits Broadway: Kenny Leon’s ‘Holler If Ya Hear Me’ Is Crazy, Silly Fun | Marlow Stern | June 19, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe article includes a depressing photo of pasty nerds as evidence.
‘American Blogger’ Is So Bad, You’ll Wish It Was a Spoof | Andy Hinds | April 16, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
I leaned out of the window but recoiled with disgust, for the young man with the pasty face stood below in the churchyard.
Read ‘The King in Yellow,’ the ‘True Detective’ Reference That’s the Key to the Show | Robert W. Chambers | February 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIf you met him in a bar, he might be all likkered up and decide he wants to kick your pasty, yuppie ass just for the hell of it.
No pasty-faced legal adventurer is going to cause bad blood between the Warners and the Marxes.
Harvey Weinstein’s Battle With Warner Bros. Over ‘The Butler’: There's History | Marlow Stern | July 12, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTSome hidden magnetism burst from him like an aura, and his cold pasty face and light gray eyes flamed into positive beauty.
Ancestors | Gertrude AthertonWhen first seen it is said to have had a pasty consistency, but on exposure to the air it dried and crumbled into powder.
Asbestos | Robert H. JonesIf the metal to be cleansed is gold, you will see a pasty mass or amalgam, as it is called, of a yellowish tinge.
St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 5, March, 1878 | VariousA good venison pasty, and very merry, and pleasant I made myself with my Lady, and she as much to me.
Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete | Samuel PepysThe pasty mass was dissolved in water, acidified with sulphuric acid, and filtered.
Some Constituents of the Poison Ivy Plant: (Rhus Toxicodendron) | William Anderson Syme
British Dictionary definitions for pasty (1 of 2)
/ (ˈpeɪstɪ) /
of or like the colour, texture, etc, of paste
(esp of the complexion) pale or unhealthy-looking
either one of a pair of small round coverings for the nipples used by striptease dancers
Derived forms of pasty
- pastily, adverb
- pastiness, noun
British Dictionary definitions for pasty (2 of 2)
/ (ˈpæstɪ) /
a round of pastry folded over a filling of meat, vegetables, etc: Cornish pasty
Origin of pasty
2Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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