pasty

comparative pastier · superlative pastiest · alternative rare pastey

1. Like paste, sticky.

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

2. Pale, lacking colour, having a pallor.

   He is pasty-faced.

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   (figuratively) He was feeling pasty.

   Are you feeling OK? You look a bit pasty.

   Synonyms: pasty-faced

3. derogatoryethnicoffensiveslangslurWhiteskinned.

   “So, snow bunny, what should black women do? How do we...oh, how do I say this... cure our brothas of this widespread, pasty disease?” I didn't reply. Again, I tried to step away. Again, she grabbed my arm.

   2010, James W. Lewis, Sellout, page 107

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   He smoothed his tailored suit and red tie. "Boy, does it look like I ain't rich now? My pockets are already full of paper! Why the fuck would I want to risk doing business with some pasty cracker? For all I know, you a cop!"

   2008, John Lacombe, Winter Games, page 184

plural pasties · alternative pastie

1. A type of seasoned meat and vegetable hand pie, usually of a semicircular shape.

plural pasties

1. alternativein pluralAlternative spelling of pastie (“a small item of clothing that conceals little more than the nipple of a woman's breast, primarily worn by female exotic dancers”).

   Nonchalantly she bared one succulent pasty-topped breast.

   1989, Joe David Bellamy, Suzi Sinzinnati: A Novel, Pushcart Press, →ISBN, page 29

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   One of the experienced dancers dabbed a bit of rubber cement inside a silver-sequinned pasty and told Betty to place it over her nipple

   2001, Irene Pence, Buried Memories, Kensington Publishing Corporation, →ISBN, page 52

   There really is no other purpose for wearing a pasty than to avoid being arrested for indecency.

   2004 February 2, Jake Drake, “Janet Jackson and American Slut Culture”, in rec.music.opera (Usenet)

   "What's a pasty?" ¶ "That's what strippers and showgirls used to wear to cover their nipples in teh old, tamer days of yore. They were round paper disks with spangles on one side and paste on the other; hence the term pasty."

   2009, Jeffry S. Hepple, “Mancha, Mexico”, in The Treasure of La Malinche, volume 2, Jeffry S. Hepple, →ISBN, page 164

   Synonyms: nipple pastie, nipple pasty