dainty

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈdeɪnti/    美 /ˈdeɪnti/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A delicacy (choice or pleasing food).
    — And she receyued hym with grete Ioye and made hym to sytte doune by her and soo was he sette to soupe with flesshe and many deyntees And she received him with great joy, and made him to sit down by her, and so was he set to sup with flesh and many dainties.
  2. A fancy cookie, pastry, or square, frequently homemade, served at a social event. British-Columbia,Canadian-Prairies,Northwestern,Ontario,plural-normally
  3. Esteem, honour. obsolete
  4. An affectionate term of address. obsolete
    — I am not eager at forbidden dainties
形容词 adj.
  1. Elegant; delicately small and pretty.
    — As for thoſe People of the Eaſt, (Goa, Calecute, Malaca,) they vvere a Fine, and Dainty People; Frugall, and yet Elegant, though not Militar.
    Comus
  2. Fastidious and fussy, especially when eating.
    — UUho when he ſhal embrace you in his arms UUil tell how many thouſand men he ſlew. And when you looke for amorous diſcourſe, Will rattle foorth his facts of war and blood: Too harſh a ſubiect for your daintie eares.
  3. Excellent; valuable, fine. obsolete
    — Heliogabalus the most dissolute man of the world, amidst his most riotous sensualities, intended, whensoever occasion should force him to it, to have a daintie death.

词形变化

daintier comparative daintiest superlative dainties plural

词汇关系

衍生词
Canadian dainty daintiful daintify daintily daintiness overdainty prick-me-dainty superdainty undainteous undainty

词源

词源 1
From Middle English deynte (as noun), from Old French deintié, from Latin dignitātem. Doublet of dignity.
词源 2
From Middle English deynte (as noun), from Old French deintié, from Latin dignitātem. Doublet of dignity.
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