From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Pasty \Pas"ty\, adjective Like paste, as in color, softness, stickness. ''A pasty complexion.'' --G. Eliot.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Pasty \Pas"ty\, noun; 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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: resembling paste in color; pallid; "the looked pasty and red-eyed"; "a complexion that had been pastelike was now chalky white" [syn: {pastelike}]
2: having the properties of glue [syn: {gluey}, {glutinous}, {gummy}, {mucilaginous}, {sticky}, {viscid}, {viscous}]
noun
1: small meat pie or turnover [also: {pastiest}, {pastier}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
147 Moby Thesaurus words for "pasty": Danish pastry, French pastry, achromatic, achromic, adhesive, amylaceous, anemic, ashen, ashy, baccate, baklava, bled white, blintz, bloodless, cadaverous, chloranemic, chocolate eclair, clabbered, clammy, clayey, clotted, coagulated, colorless, cream puff, curdled, dead, deadly pale, deathly pale, dim, dimmed, dingy, discolored, doughy, dowdy, dull, eclair, etiolated, exsanguinated, exsanguine, exsanguineous, faded, faint, fallow, flabby, flat, fleshy, gaumy, gelatinous, ghastly, glairy, gluelike, gluey, glutenous, glutinose, glutinous, gooey, gray, grumous, gumbo, gumbolike, gumlike, gummous, gummy, haggard, heavy, hueless, hypochromic, inspissated, jelled, jellied, jellylike, lackluster, leaden, livid, loamy, lurid, lusterless, macerated, masticated, mat, mealy, mucilaginous, muddy, mushy, neutral, pale, pale as death, pale-faced, pallid, pandowdy, pastry, patisserie, patty, patty-shell, pie, pithy, puff, pulpal, pulpar, pulped, pulplike, pulpy, quiche, ropy, rosette, sallow, sickly, slabby, slimy, slithery, soft, spongy, squashy, squelchy, squishy, starchy, sticky, stodgy, stringy, strudel, succulent, syrupy, tacky, tallow-faced, tart, tenacious, thick, thickened, timbale, tipsy cake, toneless, tough, tremelloid, tremellose, trifle, turnover, uncolored, viscid, viscose, viscous, vol-au-vent, wan, washed-out, waxen, weak, whey-faced, white
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