Definition of Dainty
Adjective: dainty (daintier,daintiest) deyn-tee
- Delicately beautiful
"a dainty teacup";
- exquisite
- Affectedly dainty or refined
- mincing, niminy-piminy, prim, twee [Brit]
- Especially pleasing to the taste
"a dainty dish to set before a kind"
- Excessively fastidious and easily disgusted
"too dainty about his food to take to camp cooking";
- nice, overnice, prissy, squeamish
- Something considered choice to eat
- delicacy, goody, kickshaw [archaic], treat
See also:
daintinesses
daiquiri
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