Crossword clues for daintier
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dainty \Dain"ty\, a. [Compar. Daintier; superl. Daintiest.]
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Rare; valuable; costly. [Obs.]
Full many a deynt['e] horse had he in stable.
--Chaucer.Note: Hence the proverb ``dainty maketh dearth,'' i. e., rarity makes a thing dear or precious.
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Delicious to the palate; toothsome.
Dainty bits Make rich the ribs.
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Nice; delicate; elegant, in form, manner, or breeding; well-formed; neat; tender.
Those dainty limbs which nature lent For gentle usage and soft delicacy.
--Milton.I would be the girdle. About her dainty, dainty waist.
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Requiring dainties. Hence: Overnice; hard to please; fastidious; squeamish; scrupulous; ceremonious.
Thew were a fine and dainty people.
--Bacon.And let us not be dainty of leave-taking, But shift away.
--Shak.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.
--Shak.
Wiktionary
a. (en-comparative of: dainty)
WordNet
See dainty
adj. affectedly dainty or refined [syn: mincing, niminy-piminy, prim, twee]
of delicate composition and artistry; "a dainty teacup"; "an exquisite cameo" [syn: exquisite]
especially pleasing to the taste; "a dainty dish to set before a kind"; "a tasty morsel" [syn: tasty]
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" [syn: nice, overnice, prissy, squeamish]
n. something considered choice to eat [syn: delicacy, goody, kickshaw, treat]
Usage examples of "daintier".
There was also a delicacy of bone as if what lay under the skin had been formed of daintier things than mere bone.
He gave me a seashell, pale, white, gleaming with opalescence like a daintier, pinker version of abalone shell.
She got the smaller, daintier bureau with the mirror—sort of good of him to leave that for her since she felt the need lately to look at herself all the time, just to make sure she was still there—and she’d pinched her childhood dresser from home.
She had her little dresser, daintier in the largish room than it had been in their cramped, smaller room at home, but other than that it looked a little vacant.
Gerty just took off her hat for a moment to settle her hair and a prettier, a daintier head of nutbrown tresses was never seen on a girl's shoulders--a radiant little vision, in sooth, almost maddening in its sweetness.
And a prettier, a daintier head of winsome curls was never seen on a whore's shoulders.