pasty
Like paste, stickyLike paste, sticky.
Recorded UK: Speaker: Vealhurl Recorder: Vealhurl, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
» I want you to beat in his pasty, white face.
Я хочу, чтобы ты навалял ему по пухлой белой роже. — Art4704
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3 sensesLike paste, sticky.
These mashed potatoes aren’t cooked well; they are very pasty.
having the sticky properties of an adhesive
Pale, lacking colour, having a pallor.
He is pasty-faced.
(figuratively) He was feeling pasty.
(derogatory, ethnic, offensive, slang, slur)Whiteskinned.
Examples
6 sentencesI want you to beat in his pasty, white face.
ruЯ хочу, чтобы ты навалял ему по пухлой белой роже. — Art4704
He's a bit pasty.
The pasty was delicious.
ruПирог был вкусным. — astru
She's wearing only pasties and a G-string.
ruНа ней только пэстисы и стринги. — odexed
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. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Translations
3 languagesOrigin
From paste + -y (adjectival suffix).From paste + -y (adjectival suffix).
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Forms
pastier, pastiestSynonyms
9 synonymsWord family
4 related wordsLessons for this word
2 lessons- A2Comparatives — Because it has a comparative form
- A2Superlatives — Because it has a superlative form
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.