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Dainty

adjective

(compar. daintier; superl. daintiest)

Affectedly dainty or refined. Synonyms: mincing, niminy-piminy, prim, twee.

Delicately beautiful. Synonym: exquisite. "An exquisite cameo"

Especially pleasing to the taste.

Excessively fastidious and easily disgusted. Synonyms: nice, overnice, prissy, squeamish. "So squeamish he would only touch the toilet handle with his elbow"

noun

(pl. dainties)

Something considered choice to eat. Synonyms: delicacy, goody, kickshaw, treat.

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"Dainty" Quotes from Famous Books

... much have I of worldly good As e'er my master had: I diet on as dainty food, And am as richly clad, Tho' plain my garb, though scant my board, As Mary's Son ...

— English Critical Essays - Nineteenth Century • Various

... fared very hard. The ground was made up of broken stone, and all that grew was a dry and stunted brush not more than six inches high, of which the poor animals took an occasional dainty bite, and seemed hardly able ...

— Death Valley in '49 • William Lewis Manly

... looked hurriedly round, and perceived the dam, watching her movements with fiery eyes at no great distance. A hollow tree, that once been the home of bees, having recently fallen, the mother with two more cubs was feasting on the dainty food that this accident had placed within her reach; while the first kept a jealous eye on the situation of its truant ...

— The Deerslayer • James Fenimore Cooper

... than one of those fine houses, the liberal air of which he used so greatly to affect, and which have so readily received him. Has he failed truly to grasp the fact of his great success and the rewards that lie before him? At all events, he seems, after all, not greatly to value that dainty world he is now privileged to enter, and has certainly but little relish for his own works—those works which I for ...

— Imaginary Portraits • Walter Pater

... marshmallows, gumdrops, and peppermint canes With stripings of scarlet or gold, And you carry away of the treasure that rains, As much as your apron can hold! So come, little child, cuddle closer to me In your dainty white nightcap and gown, And I'll rock you away to that Sugar-Plum Tree In the ...

— Children's Literature - A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes • Charles Madison Curry

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