Noun: pasty
| Singular | pasty |
| Plural | pasties |
Sample Sentences
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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:]
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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):]
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"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:]
Nouns inflected like pasty
clitoridectomy,
royal jelly,
whoopsy,
surrogacy,
urinary,
rastrography,
renoscopy,
sourtop blueberry,
forcible entry,
superficiary,
lipidosity,
potability,
phonography,
hyperproperty,
greenery,
conjugality,
ring singularity,
Brittany,
ignobility,
obscurity, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English paste, from Anglo-Norman paste and Old French pasté. Doublet of patty. See: Middle English Nouns '
paste'.
Verbs referencing "pasty"
Irish Nouns
pastae.