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dainty/ˈdeɪnti/
▶adjective (daintier, daintiest)
- 1 delicately small and pretty.
■ delicate and graceful in build or movement.
- 2 fastidious, typically concerning food.
– derivatives
daintily adverb,
daintiness noun.
daintily adverb,
daintiness noun.
– origin ME (as n.): from OFr. daintie, deintie ‘choice morsel, pleasure’, from L. dignitas ‘worthiness or beauty’, from dignus ‘worthy’.
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