ลองค้นหาคำในรูปแบบอื่น ๆ เพื่อให้ได้ผลลัพธ์มากขึ้นหรือน้อยลง: -dain-, *dain*
Possible hiragana form: だいん |
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| | | | daintily | (adv) in a refined manner, Example: she nibbled daintily at her cake | | daintily | (adv) in a delicate manner, Example: the invitation cards were written up daintily in white and gold | | daintiness | (n) the quality of being beautiful and delicate in appearance, Syn. fineness, delicacy, Example: the daintiness of her touch; the fineness of her features | | 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, Example: a dainty teacup; an exquisite cameo | | dainty | (adj) especially pleasing to the taste, Example: a dainty dish to set before a kind | | dainty | (adj) excessively fastidious and easily disgusted, Syn. nice, overnice, prissy, squeamish, Example: too nice about his food to take to camp cooking; so squeamish he would only touch the toilet handle with his elbow |
| | 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 | 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 ] | | 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 ] |
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