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I can't give more than I have. It doesn't matter if I am the most beautiful person in the room. There is inevitably going to be somebody way shinier and more tan than my pasty self.
Olivia Thirlby

Meaning of "pasty" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PASTY

pasty  [ˈpeɪstɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PASTY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Pasty can act as a noun and an adjective.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES PASTY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

pasty

Pasty

A pasty, is a baked pastry, a traditional variety of which is particularly associated with Cornwall, the westernmost county in England. It is made by placing uncooked filling typically of meat and vegetables, on a flat pastry circle and folding it to wrap the filling, crimping the edge to form a seal. After baking, the result is a raised semicircular food item. The traditional Cornish pasty, which has Protected Geographical Indication status in Europe, is filled with beef, sliced or diced potato, swede and onion, seasoned with salt and pepper, and is baked. Today, the pasty is the food most associated with Cornwall, it is regarded as the national dish, and it accounts for 6% of the Cornish food economy. Pasties with many different fillings are made; some shops specialise in selling all sorts of pasties. The origins of the pasty are unclear, though there are many references to them throughout historical documents and fiction. The pasty is now popular world-wide due to the spread of Cornish miners, and variations can be found in Australia, the United States, Mexico and elsewhere.

Definition of pasty in the English dictionary

The first definition of pasty in the dictionary is of or like the colour, texture, etc, of paste. Other definition of pasty is pale or unhealthy-looking. Pasty is also either one of a pair of small round coverings for the nipples used by striptease dancers.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PASTY


amnesty
ˈæmnɪstɪ
Christie
ˈkrɪstɪ
Christy
ˈkrɪstɪ
dishonesty
dɪsˈɒnɪstɪ
feisty
ˈfaɪstɪ
fisty
ˈfɪstɪ
hasty
ˈheɪstɪ
honesty
ˈɒnɪstɪ
majesty
ˈmædʒɪstɪ
misty
ˈmɪstɪ
modesty
ˈmɒdɪstɪ
overhasty
ˌəʊvəˈheɪstɪ
pastie
ˈpeɪstɪ
pasty-faced
ˈpeɪstɪ
sacristy
ˈsækrɪstɪ
tasty
ˈteɪstɪ
touristy
ˈtʊərɪstɪ
travesty
ˈtrævɪstɪ
twisty
ˈtwɪstɪ
unhasty
ʌnˈheɪstɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PASTY

pastrami
pastries
pastry
pastry board
pastry brush
pastry case
pastry chef
pastry cream
pastry custard
pastry cutter
pastry mix
pastrycook
pasturable
pasturage
pastural
pasture
pasture land
pastureless
pasturer
pasty-faced

WORDS THAT END LIKE PASTY

abdominoplasty
angioplasty
arthroplasty
blasty
blepharoplasty
contrasty
Cornish pasty
dynasty
keratoplasty
mammoplasty
masty
Ming Dynasty
nasty
otoplasty
pederasty
rhinoplasty
toasty
vasty
video nasty
yeasty

Synonyms and antonyms of pasty in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «PASTY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «pasty» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of pasty

Translation of «pasty» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PASTY

Find out the translation of pasty to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of pasty from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «pasty» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

膏状
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

pastosa
570 millions of speakers

English

pasty
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

पीले
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

فطيرة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

пастообразные
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

pastosa
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

এঁেটল
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

pâteux
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pasty
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

pastöse
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ペースト状
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

페이스트
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Pasty
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

giống paste
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பசை போன்ற
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पेस्टी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

solgun
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

pasticcio
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

pasty
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

пастоподібні
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

sub formă de pastă
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

σε μορφή πάστας
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

vleespastei
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

pasty
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

deigaktig
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of pasty

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PASTY»

The term «pasty» is quite widely used and occupies the 34.394 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PASTY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «pasty» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «pasty» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about pasty

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4 QUOTES WITH «PASTY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word pasty.
1
James McAvoy
I'm 5 foot 7, and I've got pasty white skin. I don't think I'm ugly, don't get me wrong, but I'm not your classic lead man, Brad Pitt guy.
2
Elizabeth Mitchell
I am very benign-looking. I'm somewhat like a golden retriever: It's not hard to look at me. I'm perfectly fine. It's not like things jut out and make you nervous. But the lovely thing about being so pale and having such pasty features is that I can look like pretty much anything, which is nice.
3
Olivia Thirlby
I can't give more than I have. It doesn't matter if I am the most beautiful person in the room. There is inevitably going to be somebody way shinier and more tan than my pasty self.
4
Terry Wogan
I'm not big on the pasty because they say the pastry in the pasty can bring on indigestion.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PASTY»

Discover the use of pasty in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to pasty and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Encyclopaedia of Pure Materia Medica
Two pasty stools (first day),". — [1130.] Two thin pasty stools.14'. — Stool softer than usual in the morning ; in the afternoon soft stool, with urging, followed by moderate cutting in the anus (after 100 drops),14.— Three thin stools (fifth day), 340.
T. F. Allen, 2013
2
The Calorie< Carb & Fat Bible 2007: The UK's Most ...
... PASTY Beef, Port Royal* 1 Pattie/130g 299 230 10.2 24.4 10.2 0.0 Bite Size Pasties, Food To Go, Sainsbury's* 1 Serving/60g 226 377 8.2 31.2 24.4 1.5 Cheese & Onion, Freshbake* 1 Pastry/135g 368 272 5.6 25.5 16.6 1.1 Cheese & Onion, ...
Juliette Kellow, Rebecca Walton, 2007
3
Poultry Diseases: Diagnosis and Treatment
Due to diarrhoea pasty faeces may soil their vent. Very young chicks may die without showing remarkable symptoms. In rare cases blindness and lameness may develop. Hens reveal watery diarrhoea lasting 6 to 8 days after oral inoculation ...
H. V. S. Chauhan, Sushovan Roy, 2007
4
The Taste of American Place: A Reader on Regional and Ethnic ...
The traditional way to east pasty is to begin at the end, holding it parallel with the body so the juices keep the filling moist. However, more and more Yoopers now eat pasty on plates with forks, a manner which opens the door to still more ...
Barbara G. Shortridge, James R. Shortridge, 1999
5
Food in Motion: The Migration of Foodstuffs and Cookery ...
[17] That's where the pasty came from. It didn't come to Detroit from Cornwall, but from the U.P. Pasty is the tie to the U.P. Invariably, a customer will tell me he's from the U.P., as if that's any surprise. I certainly didn't think he was from Alabama !
‎1983
6
Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of ...
These logics are embodied for artists in the form of Smith's number one targets, the "pasty normals." J. Hoberman has translated "pasty normals" as Smith's dismissal of heterosexuals.7 But my reconstructions of Smith's lexicon lead me to read ...
José Esteban Muñoz, 1999
7
Folkloristics: An Introduction
On other occasions the phenomenon itself undergoes change as it is disseminated through time and space, thus requiring a reconceptualization. An example is an item of food — the pasty. Yvonne R. Lockwood and William G. Lockwood trace ...
Robert A. Georges, 1995
8
Food and the Memory: Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on ...
Their families brought a way of life that included the pasty, a delectable potato and meat turnover that the miner carried with him and ate with a flask of tea ( Stafford ; Lockwood ). According to the Authentic Cornish Pasty ...
Harlan Walker, 2001
9
Cornish Saints & Sinners
a pasty — fish, flesh, or fowl, and the herb of the field, whether sweet or sour, to say nothing of fruits and humble potatoes and turnips. When a woman has a rage for pasty-making, nothing comes amiss when the strip of dough is ready. There's  ...
J. Henry Harris, 2009
10
Border Town Blood
The momentum of the failed attack and the unexpected force applied to his fist threw Pasty off balance and he stumbled into Dan. Dan grabbed Pasty's head and executed a picture perfect flying mare and tossed Pasty over his left shoulder  ...
Curt Collier, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PASTY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term pasty is used in the context of the following news items.
1
After Spartacus: Is Sweetie Salad Any Good?
... which thankfully didn't make our pasty skin any whiter, but the combination of roast veggies, beans and nuts did leave us feeling revitalized. «The Beijinger, Jul 15»
2
Nicki Minaj, Taylor Swift and the catfight that completely missed the …
The French can keep their croissants and let Americans queue for hours for a faddish “cronut” if they so choose; all we want is a humble pasty. «The Independent, Jul 15»
3
MacPherson: Games invite rough justice for telemarketers
Pasty telemarketers would get terrible sunburns. Boxing is a natural. Every time a telemarketer got hit, we could all say, "Congratulations!". «Saskatoon StarPhoenix, Jul 15»
4
Nasty pasty thief raids baked goods and clothing from washing line …
Police are hunting a hungry thief who stole baked goods and clothing from a washing line during a night time raid. The peckish pasty thief ... «Manchester Evening News, Jul 15»
5
Celtic Pasties Clock in Crowd Favorite
One of the crowd favorites here at Caras Park is the traditional Irish food-- like the pasty... A beef and vegetable-filled baked dough. One of the ... «ABC FOX Montana News, Jul 15»
6
Birmingham to be recognised as home of the balti
The balti is set to be ranked alongside Champagne and the Cornish pasty in a new gourmet guide listing Europe's best regional produce. «Birmingham Mail, Jul 15»
7
Man 'not allowed' to review dirty hotel room despite half-eaten …
A HOLIDAYMAKER is livid after finding a half-eaten pasty down the side of the sofa in his hotel room - and claims he has been barred from ... «Express.co.uk, Jul 15»
8
Phat Pasty Co sees sales jump 22%
Pasty concept Phat Pasty has seen sales surge thanks in part to a big increase in the number of universities selling its products and using its ... «British Baker, Jul 15»
9
Airbnb reviews are untrustworthy, user claims
After finding a half-eaten pasty down the side of the sofa, Mr Le Vell phoned up Airbnb to cancel the booking and went online to book himself ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
10
Find golden ticket in a pasty to win prizes
Rich's pasties achieved world recognition after they came fourth in the World Pasty Championships earlier this year. He has also created the ... «Portsmouth News, Jul 15»

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