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Pasties

Definition: Pasties

Pasties

Noun

1. A pair of adhesive patches worn to cover the nipples of exotic dancers and striptease performers.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "pasties" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1594. (references)



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Crosswords: Pasties

English words defined with "pasties": patty-pan. (references)
Specialty definitions using "pasties": COOK, SPECIALTY. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Pasties

DomainTitle

Books

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Pasties

"Pasties" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Pasties" is used about 38 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (plural)100%3855,818

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Pasties

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

pasties

174

cornish pasties

24

nipple pasties

15

breast pasties

6

nipples pasties

5

lingerie pasties

4

pasties recipe

4

michigan pasties

4

pasties veggie

4

diaper pasties

3

pasties peninsula upper

3

in michigan pasties

3

pasties variety

3

marquette pasties

3

by dozen order pasties

3

mini pasties

3

pasties ship

3

pasties yooper

3

pasties steak

2

adult pasties

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Pasties

Language Translations for "pasties"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

肉馅饼 (Pasty). (various references)

   

German

  

Pasteten (pastries, pastry). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

astiespay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Pasties

Derivations

Words beginning with "pasties": pastiest. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Pasties" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Easties, Eastoes, fasties, pastides, pastie, pastiles, pastose, paties, patsie, Pavshtiks, pescies, pestis, Pistia, pistis, plastis, Posties. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Pasties

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: patsies, petsais, tapises.

Words within the letters "a-e-i-p-s-s-t"

-1 letter: pastes, pastie, pastis, petsai, pietas, pistes, sepias, siesta, spaits, spates, spites, stapes, stipes, tassie.

-2 letters: apses, apsis, aspis, asset, easts, paise, pases, passe, paste, pasts, pates, peats, pests, pieta, piste, pitas, sates, satis, seats, sepia, septa, septs, sipes, sites, spaes, spait, spate, spats, spies, spite, spits, steps, sties, stipe, tapes, tapis, tasse, tepas.

-3 letters: aits, apes, apse, asps, ates, east, eats, etas, pase, pass, past, pate, pats, peas, peat, pest, pets, pias, pies, piss, pita, pits, psis, psst, saps, sate, sati, seas, seat, seis, sept, seta, sets, sipe, sips, site, sits, spae, spas, spat, spit, step, tape, taps, tass, teas, tepa, ties, tips.

-4 letters: ais, ait, ape, apt, asp, ass, ate, eat, ess, eta, its, pas, pat, pea, pes, pet, pia, pie, pis, pit, psi, sae, sap, sat, sea, sei, set, sip, sis, sit, spa, tae, tap, tas, tea, tie, tip, tis.

-5 letters: ae, ai, as, at, es, et, is, it, pa, pe, pi, si, ta, ti.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-i-p-s-s-t"
 

+1 letter: baptises, epistasy, epitases, epitasis, escapist, impastes, pastiest, pastimes, pastises, pastries, piasters, piastres, raspiest, sappiest, soapiest, spaciest, steapsin, traipses, waspiest.

 

+2 letters: antipress, aspirates, autopsies, campsites, dioptases, dissipate, epiblasts, epistases, epistasis, epistaxes, epistaxis, escapists, inaptness, mateships, panelists, parasites, passivate, pastelist, pastiches, pastilles, pastiness, patissier, pilasters, pinasters, pistaches, plaisters, plashiest, practises, pristanes, psaltries, psammites, saponites, satrapies, shipmates, snappiest, spacesuit, sparkiest, sparriest, speciates, spoliates, stapelias, steamship, steapsins, supinates, swampiest, thespians, tieclasps, tipstaves.

 

+3 letters: anapestics, antisepses, antisepsis, apostacies, apostasies, apostatise, apotheosis, appetisers, asperities, assumptive, cadetships, caespitose, cathepsins, cityscapes, dispatches, dispersant, dissipated, dissipater, dissipates, empathises, epinasties, epistasies, fishplates, inspissate, mastership, mispatches, palimpsest, palletises, paltriness, pantheisms, pantheists, papistries, parasitise, passionate, passivated, passivates, pastelists, pastellist, pasteurise, patchiness, patisserie, patissiers, patronises, peptidases, periplasts, phantasies, pikestaffs, pikestaves, pistareens, pityriases, pliantness, prefascist, privatises, psalteries, rebaptisms, sapidities, saprolites, scapolites, scrappiest, semipostal, separatism, separatist, shapeliest, shipmaster, slipstream, spacesuits, spaghettis, spangliest, sparkliest, sparsities, sparteines, spearmints, specialest, specialist, spermatids, splashiest, sprawliest, standpipes, steamships, stipulates, striptease, sympathies, sympathise, sympatries, tapestries, thaneships, therapists, therapsids, transpires, trapezists.

 

+4 letters: adiposities, antiphrases, antipyreses, antipyresis, antiseptics, apostatised, apostatises, apostatizes, apostleship, appositives, archpriests, asphaltites, asphyxiates, baptistries, battleships, capitalises, captionless, catalepsies, constipates, disparities, dispatchers, dispersants, dissipaters, dissipative, episcopates, esemplastic, hospitalise, impatienses, inaptnesses, inspissated, inspissates, interphases, interspaces, legateships, masterships, metaphysics, metaplasias, palimpsests, palmistries, panegyrists, parasitised, parasitises, parasitizes, parasitoses, parenthesis, paresthesia, parotitises, passivities, pastellists, pasteurised, pasteurises, pasteurizes, pasticheurs, pastinesses, patisseries, peasantries, pederasties, pedestrians, pediatrists, peripatuses, peristalses, peristalsis, personalist, piquantness, plasterings, plasticenes, plasticines, plasticizes, platyfishes, poinsettias, prefascists, privateness, proteinases, psittacines, psittacoses, respirators, semipostals, senatorship, separations, separatisms, separatists, septenarius, septicemias, shinplaster, shipmasters, slipstreams, specialists, specialties, speciations, spermacetis, spessartine, spessartite, sphalerites, stephanotis, stewardship, stripteaser, stripteases, subprimates, supergiants, supplicates, supremacist, suprematism, suprematist, sympathised, sympathises, sympathizes, sympetalies, tapersticks, therapeusis, trapeziuses, trespassing, typicalness, waitpersons.

 

+5 letters: adaptiveness, anisotropies, antistrophes, apostleships, apostrophise, apotheosizes, appositeness, atmospherics, baptisteries, captiousness, cataphoresis, ceratopsians, depositaries, desperations, diapositives, dipeptidases, diphosphates, dispensation, dispensatory, dissipatedly, epigraphists, epistolaries, escapologist, expansionist, greasepaints, hospitalised, hospitalises, hospitalizes, hypostatizes, imperialists, impersonates, intraspecies, kinetoplasts, masterpieces, misanthropes, osteopathies, osteoplastic, paintbrushes, palatialness, paltrinesses, paraesthesia, paresthesias, partnerships, passionately, pasteurising, pasteurizers, patchinesses, paternalisms, paternalists, pathogenesis, perestroikas, personalists, personalties, personations, philatelists, phosphatides, phosphatizes, pitiableness, plasticities, plasticizers, pleasantries, pleinairists, pliantnesses, poeticalness, postulancies, praetorships, preestablish, primateships, professoriat, psychiatries, reassumption, respirations, scapegoatism, scyphistomae, semiparasite, senatorships, separatistic, shinplasters, slaphappiest, slipstreamed, sociopathies, sophisticate, spaceflights, spaghettinis, spasticities, spatialities, specialistic, specialities, speculations, spessartines, spessartites, spirochaetes, springwaters, steatopygias, stepfamilies, stewardships, stripteasers, subspecialty, superlatives, supernations, superplastic, superstation, supremacists, suprematisms, suprematists, sympathetics, sympathizers, timepleasers, traineeships, transpierces, transshipped.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Pasties


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 61 73 74 69 65 73

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01100001 01110011 01110100 01101001 01100101 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#97 &#115 &#116 &#105 &#101 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0061 0073 0074 0069 0065 0073

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

50678586757185

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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