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# pasty

«pasty» in Mova's school dictionary: **noun (UK): A pastry case folded around a filling of meat…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a pasty, pasties — PAST-ee); adjective (pasty, pastier, pastiest — PAYST-ee)

### meaning for a pupil

1) noun (UK): A pastry case folded around a filling of meat and vegetables, baked; the Cornish pasty is famous. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pasty/#m1)

2) adjective: (of a face or skin) Pale and unhealthy-looking, like dough. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pasty/#m2)

3) adjective: Like paste: thick and sticky. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pasty/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In UK and Cornish life, pasties are a lunch food; Cornish miners took them underground and held the thick crust edge. In stories, «a pasty face» shows someone is ill, tired or has not been outside. Phrases: «Cornish pasty», «a meat pasty», «pasty-faced», «pale and pasty».

### examples

- We bought a hot Cornish pasty at the beach. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pasty/#x1)
- The pasty was filled with beef, potato and onion. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pasty/#x2)
- Tin miners used to eat pasties down the mines. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pasty/#x3)
- After being ill all week he looked pasty and tired. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pasty/#x4)
- The paint looked thick and pasty. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pasty/#x5)
- Gran bakes cheese and onion pasties on Saturdays. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pasty/#x6)
- I made the pasty according to the best rules; nothing has been left out. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pasty/#x7)

### note

Two pronunciations: the food is PASS-tee (short a); the pale adjective is PAYS-tee (like «paste»). Plural noun: pasties. In the US, the food is less known except in Michigan; «pasties» there can also mean something else, so be careful. Comparatives: pastier, pastiest.

### In the corpora

- [An embarrassing truth is often funny rather than hurtful, like "the dog got the pasty before me!"](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/85-pretend-cover-stories-and-lies-that-become-habits/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «pasty» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pasty/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.