dainty

[Dain·ty]

Dainty means tiny, delicate, and lovely, so you could describe a little china tea set as dainty, and you could also call the tiny cakes on the little plates dainty.

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Value; estimation; the gratification or pleasure taken in anything.

Noun
something considered choice to eat

Adjective S.
of delicate composition and artistry; "a dainty teacup"; "an exquisite cameo"

Adjective S.
excessively fastidious and easily disgusted; "too nice about his food to take to camp cooking"; "so squeamish he would only touch the toilet handle with his elbow"

Adjective S.
affectedly dainty or refined

Adjective S.
especially pleasing to the taste; "a dainty dish to set before a kind"; "a tasty morsel"

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n.
Value; estimation; the gratification or pleasure taken in anything.

n.
That which is delicious or delicate; a delicacy.

n.
A term of fondness.

superl.
Rare; valuable; costly.

superl.
Delicious to the palate; toothsome.

superl.
Nice; delicate; elegant, in form, manner, or breeding; well-formed; neat; tender.

superl.
Requiring dainties. Hence: Overnice; hard to please; fastidious; squeamish; scrupulous; ceremonious.

Dainty

Dain"ty , n.; pl. Dainties . [OE. deinie, dainte, deintie, deyntee, OF. deinti'82 delicacy, orig., dignity, honor, fr. L. dignitas, fr. dignus worthy. See Deign, and cf. Dignity.] 1. Value; estimation; the gratification or pleasure taken in anything. [Obs.]

I ne told no deyntee of her love.

2. That which is delicious or delicate; a delicacy.

That precious nectar may the taste renew Of Eden's dainties, by our parents lost.

3. A term of fondness. [Poetic] B. Jonson. Syn. -- Dainty, Delicacy. These words are here compared as denoting articles of food. The term delicacy as applied to a nice article of any kind, and hence to articles of food which are particularly attractive. Dainty is stronger, and denotes some exquisite article of cookery. A hotel may be provided with all the delicacies of the season, and its table richly covered with dainties.

These delicacies I mean of taste, sight, smell, herbs, fruits, and flowers, Walks and the melody of birds.

[A table] furnished plenteously with bread, And dainties, remnants of the last regale.

Dainty

Dain"ty, a. [Compar. Daintier ; superl. Daintiest.] 1. Rare; valuable; costly. [Obs.]

Full many a deynt'82 horse had he in stable.

&hand; Hence the proverb "dainty maketh dearth," i. e., rarity makes a thing dear or precious. 2. Delicious to the palate; toothsome.

Dainty bits Make rich the ribs.

3. Nice; delicate;elegant, in form, manner, or breeding; well-formed; neat; tender.

Those dainty limbs which nature lent For gentle usage and soft delicacy.

Iwould be the girdle. About her dainty, dainty waist.

4. Requirinig daintles. Hence; Overnice; hard to please; fastidious; sqrupulous; ceremonious.

Thew were a fine and Dainty people.

And let us not be dainty of leave taking, But shift away.

To make dainty, to assume or affect delicacy or fastidiousness. [Obs.]

Ah ha, my mistresses! which of you all Will now deny to dance? She that makes dainty, She, I'll swear, hath corns.

Value; estimation; the gratification or pleasure taken in anything.

Rare; valuable; costly.

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Usage Examples

They eat the dainty food of famous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman's octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach.

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