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dainty

Dictionary definition · dainty

noun

  1. something considered choice to eat

adjective

  1. delicately beautiful"a dainty teacup"
  2. especially pleasing to the taste"a dainty dish to set before a kind"
  3. excessively fastidious and easily disgusted"too nice about his food to take to camp cooking"

Source: Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).