AIBU to use the word "pate" for a vegetarian dip?

[MRex]

I use the word "pate" generically for stuff I plan to spread on toast. The example today is fried red capsicum pepper and shallots with leftover wheatberry and beans salad whizzed up with some cream cheese and pepper. DH says it may only be called a dip because it contains no meat nor fish. It's thick enough to spread and nobody is expected to dip anything in it. I concede that pate usually includes meat or fish, but there are also vegetarian mushroom pates, so I'm not the first person to use pate in this context.

Majority verdict rules. AIBU to call this a pate?

Because I am old fashioned posh/pretentious I try to use English rather than French words wherever I can. So I like to use spread and paste. There are people who find this very annoying. Can’t imagine why.......

Pate is a spread, not a dip so he is doubly wrong :)

why not use the german 'Aufstrich'
bonus point if you can pronounce it

@orangeshoebox - I would almost certainly get the pronunciation wrong!

@BertrandRussell - veg paste feels like it misses out the cream cheese element and I hate the margarine sound of spread. I'm happy to take on an English word if there's another option?

Agreed vegetable paste does not shout appetising!

Pâté (/ˈpæteɪ/) is a paste, pie or loaf consisting of a forcemeat that at least contains liver.

From Wikipedia which of course is never wrong, hem hem.

Even if we concede there's such a thing as vegetarian pate, what you're describing isn't thick enough to be a pate, it's a vegetable sandwich paste or sandwich spread (regardless of whether you don't like the word)

Aha! A dissenter! I think the other dictionaries beat wikipedia, because wiktionary agrees with the others (though oddly it's including booze?):
pâté(countableanduncountable,pluralpâtés)

A finely-groundpasteofmeat,fishorvegetables, sometimes with theadditionofalcohol.