PASTY (pastier, pastiest)

 Dictionary entry overview: What does pasty mean? 

• PASTY (noun)
  The noun PASTY has 2 senses:

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

  Familiarity information: PASTY used as a noun is rare.

• PASTY (adjective)
  The adjective PASTY has 2 senses:

1. resembling paste in color; pallid
2. having the sticky properties of an adhesive

  Familiarity information: PASTY used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PASTY (noun)

Meaning:

Small meat pie or turnover

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("pasty" is a kind of...):

meat pie (pie made with meat or fowl enclosed in pastry or covered with pastry or biscuit dough)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pasty"):

Cornish pasty (meat pie with filling of meat and vegetables)

pork pie (small pie filled with minced seasoned pork)

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("pasty" is a kind of...):

patch (a piece of cloth used as decoration or to mend or cover a hole)

• PASTY (adjective)

Meaning:

Resembling paste in color; pallid

Synonyms:

pastelike; pasty

Context examples:

he looked pasty and red-eyed / a complexion that had been pastelike was now chalky white

Similar:

colorless; colourless (weak in color; not colorful)

Meaning:

Having the sticky properties of an adhesive

Synonyms:

gluey; glutinous; gummy; mucilaginous; sticky; viscid; viscous; pasty

Similar:

adhesive (tending to adhere)