pasty

pasty

Wikipedia pasty (plural pasties)

1. (chiefly in the plural) A small item of clothing that conceals little more than the nipple of a womans breast, primarily worn by female exotic dancers.
   • 1989, Joe David Bellamy, Suzi Sinzinnati: A Novel^[1], Pushcart Press, ISBN 9780916366568, page 29:

     Nonchalantly she bared one succulent pasty-topped breast.

   • 2001, Irene Pence, Buried Memories^[2], Kensington Publishing Corporation, ISBN 0786012633, page 52:

     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

   • 2004 February 02, Jake Drake, “Janet Jackson and American Slut Culture”, rec.music.opera, Usenet:

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

   • 2009, Jeffry S. Hepple, “Mancha, Mexico”, in The Treasure of La Malinche^[3], volume 2, Jeffry S. Hepple, ISBN 9780984118229, page 164:

     ""Whats a pasty?"" ¶ ""Thats 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.""

2. (offensive, slang) A white person

pasty (comparative pastier, superlative pastiest)

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.

   (figuratively) He was feeling pasty.

appiccicoso

pallido

pasticcio

pastoso

scialbo

Altri significati:

A type of seasoned meat and vegetable pie

(chiefly in the plural) An item worn by strippers to conceal the nipples.

A type of seasoned meat and vegetable pie, usually of a semicircular or distinctive shape. A (savory) hand pie.

(figuratively) '''He was feeling pasty.'''

Like paste, sticky.

pale, lacking colour

Traduzione 'veloce'

Il nostro dizionario è liberamente ispirato al wikidizionario .... The online encyclopedia in which any reasonable person can join us in writing and editing entries on any encyclopedic topic