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pasty | slice |

As nouns the difference between pasty and slice

is that 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 while slice is that which is thin and broad.

As an adjective pasty

is like paste, sticky.

As a verb slice is

to cut into slices.

pasty

English

Etymology 1

From .

Adjective

(er)
  • Like paste, sticky.
    • These mashed potatoes aren’t cooked well, they are very pasty .
  • pale, lacking colour, having a pallor
    • He is pasty -faced.
    (figuratively) He was feeling pasty .
    Are you feeling OK? You look a bit pasty .
  • (slang, offensive, derogatory, ethnic slur) white-skinned
    • Synonyms
    * (pale) pale, pallid

    Noun

    (pasties)
  • A small item of clothing that conceals little more than the nipple of a woman's breast, primarily worn by female exotic dancers.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1989 , publisher=Pushcart Press , author=Joe David Bellamy , title=Suzi Sinzinnati: A Novel citation , pageurl= , isbn=9780916366568 , page=29 , passage=Nonchalantly she bared one succulent pasty -topped breast.}}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=2001 , publisher=Kensington Publishing Corporation , author=Irene Pence , title=Buried Memories citation , pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?ei=nGxQTJPvCOb8sQbdkKivAQ&ct=result&id=Hb_yAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22pasty%22+stripper+bosom, breast, nipple, exotic+-cornish&q=%22pasty%22
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    • , isbn=0786012633 , page=52 , 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
    • , year=2004 , date=February 02 , author=Jake Drake , title=Janet Jackson and American Slut Culture , newsgroup=rec.music.opera citation , passage=There really is no other purpose for wearing a pasty than to avoid being arrested for indecency. }}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=2009 , year_published= , publisher=Jeffry S. Hepple , author=Jeffry S. Hepple , title=The Treasure of La Malinche , chapter=Mancha, Mexico , volume=2 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
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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 ."}}

    Related terms

    * paste

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) paste and (etyl) .

    Alternative forms

    * pastie

    Noun

    (pasties)
  • A type of seasoned meat and vegetable pie, usually of a semicircular or distinctive shape. A (savory) hand pie.
    • 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 pasty
    See also
    * meat pie * sausage roll * BBC: Who, What, Why: What exactly is a Cornish pasty?

    Anagrams

    * English ethnic slurs English heteronyms

    slice

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • That which is thin and broad.
  • A thin, broad piece cut off.
    • a slice''' of bacon''; ''a '''slice''' of cheese''; ''a '''slice of bread
  • amount
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2010 , date=December 28 , author=Owen Phillips , title=Sunderland 0 - 2 Blackpool , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Blackpool, chasing a seventh win in 17 league matches, simply could not contain Sunderland's rampant attack and had to resort to a combination of last-ditch defending, fine goalkeeping and a large slice of fortune. }}
  • A piece of pizza.
  • * 2010 , Andrea Renzoni, ?Eric Renzoni, Fuhgeddaboudit! (page 22)
    • For breakfast, lunch, or dinner, the best Guido meal is a slice and a Coke.
  • (British) A snack consisting of pastry with savoury filling.
    • I bought a ham and cheese slice at the service station.
  • A broad, thin piece of plaster.
  • A knife with a thin, broad blade for taking up or serving fish; also, a spatula for spreading anything, as paint or ink.
  • A salver, platter, or tray.
  • A plate of iron with a handle, forming a kind of chisel, or a spadelike implement, variously proportioned, and used for various purposes, as for stripping the planking from a vessel's side, for cutting blubber from a whale, or for stirring a fire of coals; a slice bar; a peel; a fire shovel.
  • One of the wedges by which the cradle and the ship are lifted clear of the building blocks to prepare for launching.
  • (printing) A removable sliding bottom to a galley.
  • (golf) A shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the right. See fade, hook, draw
  • (Australia, NZ) A class of heavy cakes or desserts made in a tray and cut out into squarish slices.
  • (medicine) A section of image taken of an internal organ using MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), CT (computed tomography), or various forms of x-ray.
  • (falconry) A hawk's or falcon's dropping which squirts at an angle other than vertical. (See mute.)

    • Derived terms

    * hyperslice

    Verb

    (slic)
  • To cut into slices.
    • Slice the cheese thinly.
  • To cut with an edge utilizing a drawing motion.
    • The knife left sliced his arm.
  • (golf) To hit a shot that slices (travels from left to right for a right-handed player).
  • (soccer)
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=October 22 , author=Sam Sheringham , title=Aston Villa 1 - 2 West Brom , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Chris Brunt sliced the spot-kick well wide but his error was soon forgotten as Olsson headed home from a corner. }}
  • To clear (e.g. a fire, or the grate bars of a furnace) by means of a slice bar.

    • Derived terms

    * sliceable

    External links

    * (commonslite)

    Anagrams

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