Meaning

3 senses
  1. Like paste, sticky.

    These mashed potatoes aren’t cooked well; they are very pasty.

    having the sticky properties of an adhesive

  2. Pale, lacking colour, having a pallor.

    He is pasty-faced.

    (figuratively) He was feeling pasty.

  3. (derogatory, ethnic, offensive, slang, slur)Whiteskinned.

Examples

6 sentences
  1. I want you to beat in his pasty, white face.

    ruЯ хочу, чтобы ты навалял ему по пухлой белой роже.

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  2. He's a bit pasty.

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  3. The pasty was delicious.

    ruПирог был вкусным.

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  4. She's wearing only pasties and a G-string.

    ruНа ней только пэстисы и стринги.

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  5. She was sitting on the sea wall, happily chomping away at her Cornish pasty, when he came sidling up to her.

    deSie saß auf der Ufermauer und mampfte gerade genüsslich ihre „Cornish pasty“, da schlich er sich an sie heran.

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Translations

3 languages

Origin

From paste + -y (adjectival suffix).

From paste + -y (adjectival suffix).

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Forms

pastier, pastiest
Comparativepastier Lesson
Superlativepastiest Lesson

regular

Synonyms

9 synonyms
pasty-faced
Close in meaning

Word family

4 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
pasty — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto