Nasty vs Pasty - What's the difference?
nasty | pasty |
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*2006 , Marie Fontaine, The Chronicles of my Ghetto Street Volume One , p. 156:
*:I really don't have any friends at school Mama Mia. They talk about me all the time. They say my hair's nappy and my clothes are nasty .
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Contemptible, unpleasant (of a person).
*1897 , (Bram Stoker), Dracula :
*:Jonathan kept staring at him, till I was afraid he would notice. I feared he might take it ill, he looked so fierce and nasty .
Objectionable, unpleasant (of a thing); repellent, offensive.
*1838 , (Charles Dickens), Oliver Twist :
*:‘It's a nasty trade,’ said Mr. Limbkins, when Gamfield had again stated his wish.
Indecent or offensive; obscene, lewd.
*1933 , (Dorothy L Sayers), Murder Must Advertise :
*:He said to Mr. Tallboy he thought the headline was a bit hot. And Mr. Tallboy said he had a nasty mind.
*2009 , Okera H, Be Your Priority, Not His Option , Mill City Press 2009, p. 45:
*:We want threesomes, blowjobs, and orgies. That's just the way it is. We want the good girl who's nasty in bed.
Spiteful, unkind.
*2012 , The Guardian , 3 Jun 2012:
*:She had said: "I love the block button on Twitter. I don't know how people expect to send a nasty comment and not get blocked."
*2007 , The Observer , 5 Aug 2007:
*:There was a nasty period during the First World War when the family's allegiance was called into question - not least because one of the Schroders had been made a baron by the Kaiser.
*2012 , James Ball, The Guardian , 2 Mar 2012:
*:Moving into the middle ages, William the Conqueror managed to rout the English and rule the country, then see off numerous plots and assassination attempts, before his horse did for him in a nasty fall, killing him at 60.
(lb) Something nasty.
Sexual intercourse.
Like paste, sticky.
pale, lacking colour, having a pallor
(slang, offensive, derogatory, ethnic slur) white-skinned
A small item of clothing that conceals little more than the nipple of a woman's breast, primarily worn by female exotic dancers.
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, author=Irene Pence
, title=Buried Memories
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, passage=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}}
* {{quote-newsgroup
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, date=February 02
, author=Jake Drake
, title=Janet Jackson and American Slut Culture
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, title=The Treasure of La Malinche
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, isbn=9780984118229
, page=164
, passage="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 ."}}
A type of seasoned meat and vegetable pie, usually of a semicircular or distinctive shape. A (savory) hand pie.
As adjectives the difference between nasty and pasty
is that nasty is while pasty is like paste, sticky.As nouns the difference between nasty and pasty
is that nasty is (lb) something nasty while pasty is a small item of clothing that conceals little more than the nipple of a woman's breast, primarily worn by female exotic dancers or pasty can be a type of seasoned meat and vegetable pie, usually of a semicircular or distinctive shape a (savory) hand pie.nasty
English
Adjective
(er)citation, passage=But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty , brutish and short.}}
Noun
(nasties)- Processed foods are full of aspartame and other nasties .
- This video game involves flying through a maze zapping various nasties .
Derived terms
* do the nasty * nastygram * video nastyAnagrams
* (l), (l), (l)pasty
English
Etymology 1
From .Adjective
(er)- These mashed potatoes aren’t cooked well, they are very pasty .
- He is pasty -faced.
- (figuratively) He was feeling pasty .
- Are you feeling OK? You look a bit pasty .
Synonyms
* (pale) pale, pallidNoun
(pasties)citation, pageurl= , isbn=9780916366568 , page=29 , passage=Nonchalantly she bared one succulent pasty -topped breast.}}
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citation, passage=There really is no other purpose for wearing a pasty than to avoid being arrested for indecency. }}
citation, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=FLK2cwcv_JMC&pg=PA164&dq=pasty+stripper+bosom, breast, nipple, exotic+-cornish&ei=kGtQTP_LO4KezASv4ImgDQ&cd=4
Etymology 2
From (etyl) paste and (etyl) .Alternative forms
* pastieNoun
(pasties)Usage notes
The spelling pasty'' is considered correct in the United Kingdom but in Australia the spelling ''pastie is the more common.Derived terms
* Cornish pasty * nasty pasty * party pastySee also
* meat pie * sausage roll *BBC: Who, What, Why: What exactly is a Cornish pasty?