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ลองค้นหาคำในรูปแบบอื่น ๆ เพื่อให้ได้ผลลัพธ์มากขึ้นหรือน้อยลง: -daint-, *daint*
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English-Thai: NECTEC's Lexitron-2 Dictionary [with local updates]
dainty(adj) งดงาม, See also: สวยงาม, ประณีต, Syn. delicate, exquisite, charming
dainty(adj) มีรสชาติดี, See also: อร่อย, Syn. delicious
dainty(n) อาหารเลิศรส, Syn. delicacy
daintily(adv) อย่างพิถีพิถัน

English-Thai: HOPE Dictionary [with local updates]
dainty(เดน'ที) n., adj. งดงาม, สวยงาม, มีรสชาติดี, อร่อย, ประณีต n. สิ่งที่งดงาม, สิ่งที่มีรสชาติดี, สิ่งที่อร่อย, See also: daintily adv. ดูdainty daintiness n. ดูdainty, Syn. nice, Ant. gross

English-Thai: Nontri Dictionary
daintiness(n) ความงดงาม, ความสวยงาม, ความสะโอดสะอง, ความประณีต, ความอร่อย
dainty(adj) งดงาม, สวยงาม, สะโอดสะอง, ประณีต, อร่อย

ตัวอย่างประโยคจาก Tanaka JP-EN Corpus
daintFew boys are dainty about their food.

CMU English Pronouncing Dictionary Dictionary [with local updates]
dainty
daintily

Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary (pronunciation guide only)
dainty
daintier
dainties
daintily
daintiest
daintiness

WordNet (3.0)
daintily(adv) in a refined manner
daintily(adv) in a delicate manner
daintiness(n) the quality of being beautiful and delicate in appearance, Syn. fineness, delicacy
dainty(n) something considered choice to eat, Syn. kickshaw, goody, delicacy, treat
dainty(adj) affectedly dainty or refined, Syn. niminy-piminy, prim, mincing, twee
dainty(adj) delicately beautiful, Syn. exquisite
dainty(adj) especially pleasing to the taste
dainty(adj) excessively fastidious and easily disgusted, Syn. nice, overnice, prissy, squeamish

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English (GCIDE) v.0.53
Daint

n. [ See Dainty, n. ] Something of exquisite taste; a dainty. [ Obs. ] -- a. Dainty. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

To cherish him with diets daint. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

Daintify

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Daintified p. pr. & vb. n. Daintifying. ] [ Dainty + -fy. ] To render dainty, delicate, or fastidious. “Daintified emotion.” Sat. rev. [ 1913 Webster ]

Daintily

adv. In a dainty manner; nicely; scrupulously; fastidiously; deliciously; prettily. [ 1913 Webster ]

Daintiness

n. The quality of being dainty; nicety; niceness; elegance; delicacy; deliciousness; fastidiousness; squeamishness. [ 1913 Webster ]

The daintiness and niceness of our captains Hakluyt. [ 1913 Webster ]

More notorious for the daintiness of the provision . . . than for the massiveness of the dish. Hakewill. [ 1913 Webster ]

The duke exeeded in the daintiness of his leg and foot, and the earl in the fine shape of his hands, Sir H. Wotton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Daintrel

n. [ From daint or dainty; cf. OF. daintier. ] Adelicacy. [ Obs. ] Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dainty

a. [ Compar. Daintier superl. Daintiest. ] 1. Rare; valuable; costly. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Full many a deynté horse had he in stable. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Hence the proverb “dainty maketh dearth, ” i. e., rarity makes a thing dear or precious. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Delicious to the palate; toothsome. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dainty bits
Make rich the ribs. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Nice; delicate; elegant, in form, manner, or breeding; well-formed; neat; tender. [ 1913 Webster ]

Those dainty limbs which nature lent
For gentle usage and soft delicacy. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

I would be the girdle.
About her dainty, dainty waist. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Requiring dainties. Hence: Overnice; hard to please; fastidious; squeamish; scrupulous; ceremonious. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thew were a fine and dainty people. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

And let us not be dainty of leave-taking,
But shift away. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]


To make dainty, to assume or affect delicacy or fastidiousness. [ Obs. ]
[ 1913 Webster ]

Ah ha, my mistresses! which of you all
Will now deny to dance? She that makes dainty,
She, I'll swear, hath corns. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dainty

n.; pl. Dainties [ OE. deinie, dainte, deintie, deyntee, OF. deintié delicacy, orig., dignity, honor, fr. L. dignitas, fr. dignus worthy. See Deign, and cf. Dignity. ] 1. Value; estimation; the gratification or pleasure taken in anything. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

I ne told no deyntee of her love. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is delicious or delicate; a delicacy. [ 1913 Webster ]

That precious nectar may the taste renew
Of Eden's dainties, by our parents lost. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A term of fondness. [ Poetic ] B. Jonson.

Syn. -- Dainty, Delicacy. These words are here compared as denoting articles of food. The term delicacy as applied to a nice article of any kind, and hence to articles of food which are particularly attractive. Dainty is stronger, and denotes some exquisite article of cookery. A hotel may be provided with all the delicacies of the season, and its table richly covered with dainties. [ 1913 Webster ]

These delicacies
I mean of taste, sight, smell, herbs, fruits, and flowers,
Walks and the melody of birds. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ A table ] furnished plenteously with bread,
And dainties, remnants of the last regale. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

Chinese-English: CC-CEDICT Dictionary
高雅[gāo yǎ, ㄍㄠ ㄧㄚˇ,  ] dainty; elegance; elegant #11,423 [Add to Longdo]

Japanese-English: EDICT Dictionary
繊細[せんさい, sensai] (adj-na, n) delicate; dainty; fine; slim; sensitive; subtle; (P) #18,822 [Add to Longdo]
優美[ゆうび, yuubi] (adj-na, n) grace; refinement; elegance; daintiness; (P) [Add to Longdo]

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