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dainty

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dainty in WordNet English dictionary

noun
  1. something considered choice to eat
    dainty  delicacy  goody  kickshaw  treat 
adjective
  1. delicately beautiful
    "a dainty teacup"; "an exquisite cameo"
    dainty  exquisite 
  2. 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"
    dainty  nice  overnice  prissy  squeamish 
  3. affectedly dainty or refined
    dainty  mincing  niminy-piminy  prim  twee 
  4. especially pleasing to the taste
    "a dainty dish to set before a kind";
    dainty 
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