DAINTIFIED, DAINTILY, DAINTINESS, DAINTY
ADJECTIVES
► ABRODIETICAL feeding daintily, delicate, luxurious → 1627
► CADDLE dainty; fastidious in appetite → 1890 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► CADDLING dainty, fastidious, delicate, accustomed to be petted → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► CAGMAG dainty about one’s food; squeamish → 19C Eng. dial.
► DAINTEOUS dainty → 1386
► DAINTETH dainty → 1430
► DAINTIFUL dainty → 1393
► DAINTIVE dainty → 1526
► DANGEROUS dainty, fastidious, delicate; difficult to please → 1386
► DAUNCH dainty, fastidious, overnice, squeamish → 1460 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► DENCH ► DENSH dainty, fastidious, squeamish → 1828 Eng. dial.
► DENSH-GOBBED of a dainty, fastidious taste or appetite → 19C Eng. dial.
► DENSH-STOMACHED of a dainty, fastidious taste or appetite → 19C Eng. dial.
► DENTICAL dainty, fastidious → 1894 Eng. dial.
► DINK dainty, squeamish, precise → 1806 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► DINKY dainty, small and neat → L18 Sc. & Amer. dial.
► FEAT excessively dainty or fastidious → 1540 obs. exc. arch. & Eng. dial.
► FRIAND dainty; delicious to the palate; fond of delicate food → 1599
► KECKEN-HEARTED dainty, squeamish; loathing the sight of food → 1901 Sc. & N. Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► KECKLE-STOMACHED dainty, squeamish → 1901 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MARCHPANE dainty, fastidious → 1598
► MEALY-MOUTHED dainty, fastidious in eating → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MIMMOCKING dainty in appetite → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MIMMOCKY dainty, fanciful → 1896 Eng. dial., contemptuous usage
► MIMPING dainty, fanciful about food; affected → 1871 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► MIMPSY-PIMSY dainty, fastidious, fanciful, affected → 1892 Eng. dial.
► MIMPY dainty, fanciful about food; affected → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MINIONETTE dainty, delicate, effeminate → 1749
► NESH dainty, fastidious, squeamish → 1839 Eng. & Amer. dial.
► NIDDLETY-NODDLETY dainty → 1829 Sc.
► NIDITY-NODITY dainty → 1879 Sc.
► NINKI dainty, pretty, little, nice → 1908 Sc., children’s usage
► OGERTFUL dainty, affected, fastidious, affecting delicacy of taste → 1754 Sc.
► PAUKY ► PAWKY dainty, squeamish, over-particular, fussy → 1903 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► PRICK-ME-DAINTY finicky in dress, language, and behaviour; affectedly dainty; over-precise; excessively particular or fastidious → 1583 chiefly Sc
► QUAINT dainty, fastidious, nice → 1483
► SAUCY dainty as to food, fastidious → 1573 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► TAFFETA dainty, fastidious → 1588
► TAFFETY dainty, fastidious, particular, delicate → 1719
► TARTY dainty, particular as to food → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► TASTY with dainty habits → 1870 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► TEWEY dainty, squeamish in eating → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► TICKLE dainty, fastidious, squeamish → 1456 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► TIFFETY-TAFFETY dainty, fastidious → 1595 obs.
► TWEE affectedly dainty or quaint; over-nice, over-refined → 1917
► WANTON dainty or fastidious in appetite → 1530
ADVERBS
► SIZELY daintily, nicely → 1575
NOUNS
► DAINTIFICATION daintified condition → 1780
► DAINTIHOOD daintiness → 1780
► DAINTITH a dainty, a delicacy → 1718 Sc. obs.
► DAINTY daintiness; fastidiousness → 1590
► DANDY anything superlatively dainty, fine, or neat → 1837 colloq.
► EATTOCK a dainty, a tidbit → 1905 Sc.
► EISTACK a dainty → 1773 Sc. obs.
► NEWELTY ► NEWLITY a dainty, a novelty → 1873 Eng. dial.
► NIMM a dainty, a delicacy → 1929 Sc.
► OPSOPHAGY the eating of dainties, esp. of fish → 1854
► SUKKARKE a dainty or sweet → 1400
► SUNKET a dainty, a tidbit → 1788 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► TASTE a small dainty or delicacy eaten as a relish to plainer food → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
NOUNS – PERSON
► FRIAND a person of dainty taste in food; an epicure → 1598
► MAMMOCK ► MIMMOCK ► MUMMOCK a person with a dainty and fastidious appetite or manner → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► NICEBECETUR a dainty, fine, or fashionable girl or woman → 1520
► NICEBICE a dainty, fine, or fashionable girl or woman → 1595
► OPSOPHAGIST an eater of dainties → 1854
► PUPPET a small or dainty person → 1623
► SANNOCK a dainty, fanciful person → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
VERBS
► DAINTIFY to make dainty → 1780
► LIGURATE to feed daintily → 1623
► NICEFY to make dainty or delicate → 1611
► OPSOPHAGIZE to eat dainties → 1854