Pasty vs Dumb - What's the difference?
pasty | dumb |
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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, 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.
(label) Unable to speak; lacking power of speech.
* Hooker
(label) Silent; unaccompanied by words.
* Shakespeare
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* J. C. Shairp
extremely stupid.
(label) Pointless, foolish, lacking intellectual content or value.
Lacking brightness or clearness, as a colour.
* De Foe
To silence.
* 1911 , Lindsay Swift, William Lloyd Garrison , p. 272,
To make stupid.
* 2003 , Angela Calabrese Barton, Teaching Science for Social Justice , p. 124,
To represent as stupid.
* 2004 , Stephen Oppenheimer, The Real Eve: Modern Man's Journey Out of Africa , p. 107,
To reduce the intellectual demands of.
* 2002 , Deborah Meier, In Schools We Trust: Creating Communities of Learning in an Era of Testing , p. 126,
As adjectives the difference between pasty and dumb
is that pasty is like paste, sticky while dumb is (label) unable to speak; lacking power of speech.As a noun 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.As a verb dumb is
to silence.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
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citation, passage=There really is no other purpose for wearing a pasty than to avoid being arrested for indecency. }}
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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?
dumb
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) dumb, from (etyl) . In ordinary spoken English, a phrase like "He is dumb" is interpreted as "He is stupid" rather than "He lacks the power of speech". The latter example, however, is the original sense of the word. The senses of stupid'', ''unintellectual'', and ''pointless developed under the influence of the (etyl) word dumm.Adjective
(er)- to unloose the very tongues even of dumb creatures
- dumb show
- This spirit, dumb to us, will speak to him.
- to pierce into the dumb past
- You are so dumb ! You don't even know how to make toast!
- This is dumb ! We're driving in circles! We should have asked for directions an hour ago!
- Brendan had the dumb job of moving boxes from one conveyor belt to another.
- Her stern was painted of a dumb white or dun color.
Synonyms
* (unable to speak) dumbstruck, mute, speechless, wordless * (stupid) feeble-minded, idiotic, moronic, stupid * banal, brainless, dopey, silly, stupid, ridiculous, vulgarDerived terms
* dumb as a box of rocks * dumben * dumbhood * dummy * dumbnessEtymology 2
From (etyl) dumbien, from (etyl) dumbian (more commonly in compound .Verb
(en verb)- The paralysis of the Northern conscience, the dumbing of the Northern voice, were coming to an end.
- I think she's dumbing us down, so we won't be smarter than her.
- Bad-mouthing Neanderthals . . . is symptomatic of a need to exclude and even demonize. . . . I suggest that the unproven dumbing of the Neanderthals is an example of the same cultural preconception.
- The ensuing storm caused the department to lower the bar—amid protests that this was dumbing the test down—so that only 80 percent of urban kids would fail.