paste
noun
[ peɪst ]
• a thick, soft, moist substance typically produced by mixing dry ingredients with a liquid.
• "blend onions, sugar, and oil to a paste"
paste
verb
• coat with paste.
• "when coating walls with fabric, paste the wall, not the fabric"
• beat or defeat severely.
• "he pasted the guy and tied his ankles together"
Origin:
late Middle English: from Old French, from late Latin pasta ‘medicinal preparation in the shape of a small square’, probably from Greek pastē, (plural) pasta ‘barley porridge’, from pastos ‘sprinkled’.
