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white

English

Alternative forms

  • whight, whyte, whyght (obsolete)
  • White (race-related)

Etymology

From Middle English whit, hwit, from Old English hw?t, from Proto-West Germanic *hw?t, from Proto-Germanic *hw?taz (whence also West Frisian wyt, Dutch wit, German weiß, Norwegian Bokmål hvit, Norwegian Nynorsk kvit), from Proto-Indo-European *?weydós, a byform of *?weytós (bright; shine). Compare Lithuanian švi?sti (to gleam), šviesa (light), Old Church Slavonic ????? (sv?t?, light), ??????? (sv?t?l?, clear, bright), Persian ????? (sefid), Avestan ????????????????????????? (spa?ta, white), Sanskrit ????? (?vetá, white, bright).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: w?t, IPA(key): /wa?t/
  • (without the winewhine merger) enPR: hw?t, IPA(key): /?a?t/
  • Rhymes: -a?t
  • Homophones: wight, Wight, wite (accents with the wine-whine merger)

Adjective

white (comparative whiter or more white, superlative whitest or most white)

  1. Bright and colourless; reflecting equal quantities of all frequencies of visible light.
    • c. 1878, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "Holidays"
      white as the whitest lily on a stream.
    • 1381, quoted in Hans Kurath & Sherman M. Kuhn, eds., Middle English Dictionary, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, ISBN 978-0-472-01044-8, page 1242 (1961):
      dorr??, d?r? adj. & n. [] cook. glazed with a yellow substance; pome(s ~, sopes ~. [] 1381 Pegge Cook. Recipes page 114: For to make Soupys dorry. Nym onyons [] Nym wyn [] toste wyte bred and do yt in dischis, and god Almande mylk.
    Antonyms: black, nonwhite, unwhite
  2. (sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to Caucasians, people of European descent with light-coloured skin.
  3. (chiefly historical) Designated for use by Caucasians.
  4. Relatively light or pale in colour.
  5. Pale or pallid, as from fear, illness, etc.
  6. (of a person or skin) Lacking coloration (tan) from ultraviolet light; not tanned.
    Synonyms: fair, pale
    Antonym: tanned
  7. (of coffee or tea) Containing cream, milk, or creamer.
    Antonym: black
  8. (board games, chess) The standard denomination of the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the white set, no matter what the actual colour.
  9. Pertaining to an ecclesiastical order whose adherents dress in white habits; Cistercian.
  10. Honourable, fair; decent.
    • White as thy fame, and as thy honour clear.
    • 1916, Julia Frankau, Twilight
      He's a fine fellow, this Gabriel Stanton, a white man all through
    • 1953, Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, Penguin, 2010, p.12:
      ‘We've only met twice and you've been more than white to me both times.’
  11. Grey, as from old age; having silvery hair; hoary.
  12. (archaic) Characterized by freedom from that which disturbs, and the like; fortunate; happy; favourable.
  13. (obsolete) Regarded with especial favour; favourite; darling.
    • Come forth, my white spouse.
    • c. 1626, John Ford, Tis Pity She's a Whore
      I am his white boy, and will not be gulled.
  14. (politics) Pertaining to constitutional or anti-revolutionary political parties or movements.
    • 1932, Duff Cooper, Talleyrand, Folio Society, 2010, p.163:
      Aimée de Coigny had always adopted with enthusiasm the political views of her ruling lover and she had thus already held nearly every shade of opinion from red republicanism to white reaction.
  15. (of tea) Made from immature leaves and shoots.
  16. (typography) Not containing characters; see white space.
  17. (typography) Said of a symbol or character outline, not solid, not filled with color. Compare black (said of a character or symbol filled with color).
    Compare two Unicode symbols: ? = "WHITE RIGHT POINTING INDEX"; ? = "BLACK RIGHT POINTING INDEX"
  18. Characterised by the presence of snow.

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

  • Bislama: waet
  • Tok Pisin: wait
  • ? Japanese: ???? (howaito)
  • white fella
    • ? Nyunga: wadjela
  • white gin
    • ? Gamilaraay: waatyin
    • ? Ngiyambaa: wadjiin
    • ? Wiradhuri: waajin

Translations

See white/translations § Adjective.

Noun

white (countable and uncountable, plural whites)

  1. The color/colour of snow or milk; the colour of light containing equal amounts of all visible wavelengths.
  2. A person of European descent with light-coloured skin.
  3. Any butterfly of the family Pieridae.
  4. (countable and uncountable) White wine.
  5. (countable) Any object or substance that is of the color white.
    1. The albumen of bird eggs (egg white).
    2. (anatomy) The sclera, white of the eye.
    3. (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) The cue ball in cue games.
    4. (slang, US) Cocaine
    5. The snow- or ice-covered "green" in snow golf.
    6. A white pigment.
      Venice white
  6. (archery) The central part of the butt, which was formerly painted white; the centre of a mark at which a missile is shot.
  7. The enclosed part of a letter of the alphabet, especially when handwritten.
    • 1594, Hugh Plat, The Jewell House of Art and Nature, London, Chapter 38, p. 42,[3]
      Also it giueth a great grace to your writing, if the whites of certeine letters bee made of one equall bignesse with the o. supposing the same were all round, as the white of the b. of the a. p. y. v. w. x. q. d. g. and s.
    • 1677, Hannah Woolley, The Compleat Servant-Maid, London: T. Passinger, p. 18,[4]
      [] the a. b. d. g. o. p. q. &c. [] must be made with equal whites.
    • 1931, Margery Allingham, Police at the Funeral, Penguin, 1939, Chapter 14, p. 157,[5]
      She copied the whole alphabet like that, as though only the inside whites of the letters registered on her mind.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

white (third-person singular simple present whites, present participle whiting, simple past and past participle whited)

  1. (transitive) To make white; to whiten; to bleach.
    • whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of [] uncleanness
    • so as no fuller on earth can white them

Derived terms

  • white out

See also

  • leucite
  • leukoma
  • leukosis
  • Sauvignon blanc
  • Svetambara
  • terra alba

Further reading

  • white on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Race on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • white on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

  • withe

Middle English

Adjective

white

  1. inflection of whit:
    1. weak singular
    2. strong/weak plural
  2. Alternative form of whit

white From the web:

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  • what white wine is dry
  • what whitens teeth
  • what white wine is sweet
  • what whitening strips are the best
  • what white blood cells do
  • what white heart means
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pasty

English

Etymology 1

From paste +? -y.

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US) enPR: p?st'i, IPA(key): /?pe?sti/
  • Homophone: pastie
  • Rhymes: -e?sti

Adjective

pasty (comparative pastier, superlative pastiest)

  1. Like paste, sticky.
    These mashed potatoes aren’t cooked well; they are very pasty.
  2. pale, lacking colour, having a pallor
    He is pasty-faced.
    (figuratively) He was feeling pasty.
    Are you feeling OK? You look a bit pasty.
  3. (slang, offensive, derogatory, ethnic slur) white-skinned
    • 2008, John Lacombe, Winter Games (page 184)
      He smoothed his tailored suit and red tie. "Boy, does it look like I ain't rich now? My pockets are already full of paper! Why the fuck would I want to risk doing business with some pasty cracker? For all I know, you a cop!"
    • 2010, James W. Lewis, Sellout (page 107)
      “So, snow bunny, what should black women do? How do we...oh, how do I say this... cure our brothas of this widespread, pasty disease?” I didn't reply. Again, I tried to step away. Again, she grabbed my arm.
Synonyms
  • (sickly pale): See also Thesaurus:pallid
Translations

Noun

pasty (plural pasties)

  1. (chiefly in the plural) A small item of clothing that conceals little more than the nipple of a woman's breast, primarily worn by female exotic dancers.
Translations

Related terms

  • paste

Etymology 2

From Middle English paste, from Anglo-Norman paste and Old French pasté. Doublet of patty.

Alternative forms

  • pastie

Pronunciation

  • (UK) enPR: p?st'i, IPA(key): /?pæsti/
  • Rhymes: -æsti
  • (General Australian) enPR: päst'i, IPA(key): /?p??sti/
  • Rhymes: -??sti

Noun

pasty (plural pasties)

  1. A type of seasoned meat and vegetable hand pie, usually of a semicircular shape.
Usage notes

The spelling pasty is preferred in the United Kingdom, but in Australia pastie is more common.

Derived terms
  • Cornish pasty
  • nasty pasty
  • party pasty
  • Pastygate
  • pasty tax
Translations
See also
  • meat pie
  • sausage roll
  • BBC: Who, What, Why: What exactly is a Cornish pasty?

Anagrams

  • Patsy, Tyaps, patsy

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?pa.st?/

Noun

pasty f

  1. inflection of pasta:
    1. genitive singular
    2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

pasty From the web:

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  • what pastry for mince pies
  • what pastry should i make
  • what pastry am i
  • what pastry for sausage rolls
  • what pastry to use for empanadas
  • what pastry is used for egg rolls
  • what pastry goes well with coffee
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