What does pasty mean?we found 2 entries for the meaning of pasty
 

Pasty \Pas"ty\, a. Like paste, as in color, softness, stickness. ``A pasty complexion.'' --G. Eliot.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

 

Pasty \Pas"ty\, n.; pl. Pasties. [OF. past['e], F. p[^a]t['e]. See Paste, and cf. Patty.]

A pie consisting usually of meat wholly surrounded with a crust made of a sheet of paste, and often baked without a dish; a meat pie. ``If ye pinch me like a pasty.'' --Shak. ``Apple pasties.'' --Dickens.

A large pasty baked in a pewter platter. --Sir W. Scott.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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