I. ˈpastē, ˈpās-, -ti noun
( -es )
Etymology: Middle English pastee, paste, pastey, from Middle French pasté, from paste dough — more at paste
: a pie consisting of a meat and vegetable mixture or fruit filling wholly surrounded with a crust made of a sheet of paste dough and often baked without a dish — see cornish pasty; compare turnover
II. ˈpāstē, -ti adjective
( usually -er/-est )
Etymology: paste (I) + -y
1. : resembling paste (as in color or consistency) ; especially : pallid and unhealthy in appearance
his complexion was always pasty , but for the last few nights it had been a chalky white — Agnes S. Turnbull
2. : sickly
the pasty little books that circulate from beneath the counter — Curtis Bok