Wheatpasted

Part of speech: verb, adjective

Definitions

1. Fastened onto a wall, fence or board using a glue made from wheat flour and water, as with posters or handbills
2. Stuck up on a surface with a homemade adhesive of flour paste, often describing posters pasted in public places
3. Affixed to a surface using a simple paste of wheat starch, a method common for street posters and flyers

Etymology: "Wheatpasted" is the past tense and past participle of "wheatpaste," so its history is that of the verb it comes from. "Wheatpaste" is a compound of "wheat" and "paste," the paste being a thick adhesive made from wheat flour and water. Posters and notices were stuck to walls and hoardings with this homemade glue long before commercial adhesives were common, and "to wheatpaste" came to mean sticking up a poster in that way. The verb is applied mostly to bills and street art, and the adjective use describes a surface or poster that has been treated or stuck up in this manner.

Synonyms: pasted, glued, posted

Antonyms: unglued, unpasted