Reverse Dictionary: DELICATE

ADJECTIVES
► ABRODIETICAL over-refined or self-indulgent, esp. in regard to diet; feeding or eating daintily; delicate, fastidious, finicky → 1625 obs.
► AIRY-FAIRY having the ethereal qualities associated with a fairy; delicate; light; graceful; immaterial; also, enchanting, magical → 1837
► BRASHY indisposed; susceptible to illness; sickly, in poor health; weak; of delicate constitution; subject to frequent ailments → 1895 Sc. & Amer. dial.
► BRICKLE delicate, ticklish; requiring cautious handling → 1568 obs.
► CADDLING dainty, fastidious, delicate, accustomed to be petted → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► CAFFLING puny, weak, delicate; nervous, timid → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► CASHIE delicate, not able to endure fatigue → 1825 Sc.
► DAINTY delicate in health or constitution → 1560 obs.
► DANGEROUS difficult to please; particular, ticklish; fastidious, nice, dainty, delicate → c1386 obs.
► DAWNY wretched; miserable; pale; sickly; weakly; delicate, in poor health  → 1900 Irish usage (Bk.)
► EFFEMINATE physically weak, delicate → 1652 obs.
► FADED delicate-looking → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► FAIL delicate, in a frail state of health → 1825 Sc. obs.
► FEWLY poorly, delicate → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► GALLY sickly, delicate; yellow → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► ILL-HEARTY ailing, delicate → 1746 Eng. dial.
► JEALOUS requiring suspicious or careful vigilance; delicate, ticklish → 1600 obs.
► MALADIF sickly; delicate → 1886
► MIMINY-PIMINY ridiculously delicate, precise, or affected; finicky, over-refined → 1815 obs.
► MINIKIN small, delicate; neat; effeminate; puny, undersized → 1903 Eng. dial.   (Bk.)
► MINIKIN-FINIKIN delicate, effeminate → 1876 Eng. dial.
► MINIONETTE small and pretty; delicate, dainty, effeminate → 1749 obs.
► NARK delicate, tender → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► NESH tender, delicate, weak; unable to endure fatigue or exposure; susceptible to cold → c1000 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► NICE AS A NANNY-HEN, AS very affected; delicate → 1902 sl. (Bk.)
► PALCH broken down in health; very frail and delicate in constitution; palsied → 1897 Eng. dial.
► PALCHED half-cured, always ailing, very frail and delicate in constitution, broken down in health → 1891 Eng. dial.
► PALCHY half-cured, always ailing, very frail and delicate in constitution, broken down in health → 1897 Eng. dial.
► PALIE stunted in growth, underdeveloped, delicate in constitution → 1825 Sc.
► PEAKY having pointed, pinched features; sickly-looking; delicate → 1880 Eng. dial.  
► PINDLING puny, sickly, ailing, delicate, weak, frail → 1862 Amer. dial.
► PINDLY puny, sickly, ailing, delicate, weak, frail → 1959 Amer. dial.
► PORCELAIN fragile, delicate, fine → a1643
► PUDENT having a sense of shame or decency; modest; delicate → 1908
► SUBTILE of fine or delicate texture → c1381
► TAFFETA florid, bombastic; over-dressed; dainty, delicate, fastidious → 1588
► TAFFETY florid, bombastic; over-dressed; dainty, delicate, fastidious, particular → 1719
► TEARY weak, frail, delicate; faint → 1825 Eng. dial.
► TEULY ► TEWLY weak, sickly, delicate; poorly, unwell → 1691 Eng. dial.
► TEWEY delicate, qualmish → 1899 Eng. dial.
► TICKLE in unstable equilibrium; easily upset or overthrown, insecure, tottering, crazy; delicate, sensitive → 1515
► TICKLESOME difficult, critical, delicate, precarious → 1585 now Eng. dial.
► TICKLISH liable to end in disaster unless treated with great care; needing cautious handling or action; delicate, critical, precarious, risky, hazardous → 1592
► TIDDY delicate, puny, weakly → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► TIFFETY-TAFFETY florid, bombastic; overdressed; dainty, delicate, fastidious → 1595 obs.
► TOO HOT TO HANDLE very delicate or explosive; very controversial → 1940 US sl.
► TOOLY ► TULY weak, sickly, delicate; poorly, unwell → 1691 Eng. dial.
► UMBERSORROW weakly, delicate → 1825 Sc. obs.
► VALETUDINAIRE not in robust or vigorous health; more or less weakly, infirm or delicate; invalid → 1682
► VALETUDINARIAN not in robust or vigorous health; more or less weakly, infirm or delicate; invalid → 1713
► VALETUDINARY not in robust or vigorous health; more or less weakly, infirm or delicate; invalid → 1581
► WAIRSH weak, delicate, wanting in stamina; faint, as from want of food; sickly-looking → 1808 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► WANKLE unsteady, insecure; changeable, unsettled, precarious; inconstant, wavering; also, weak in health, delicate, sickly → c888 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► WANKLY weak, feeble, frail, delicate, shaky from weakness → 1795 chiefly Eng. dial.

ADVERBS
► WITH KID GLOVES delicately, gently, circumspectly, in such a manner so as to avoid upset → 1888 US

NOUNS
► DELICATUDE delicateness; deliciousness → 1727 obs.
► HAIR IN THE BUTTER a delicate situation → 1944 Amer. dial.
► ICTER a small or delicate thing or person → 1918 Amer. dial.
► MIDGE-CLIPPINGS anything very small and delicate → 19C Eng. dial.
► MOLLY-CHOPS anything effeminately delicate → 1894 Eng. dial.
► YARKER something very small or delicate; used ironically → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)

NOUNS – PERSON
​► ABRODIETICAL a person of over-refined or self-indulgent tastes; a delicate person, a dainty eater → 1623 obs. rare
► COME-SEE  a delicate child; ‘The child has come to the world, indecisively, to see whether or not it wishes to stay.’ → 1933 Amer. dial.
► DAFFADILE ► DAFFODIL a silly, showy woman; a delicate, effeminate man → 1821 Eng. dial.
► DAULER a supine, delicate person → 1900 Sc. (Bk.)
► GLOIT a soft delicate person → 1824 Sc.
► GRISSELL ► GRISTLE a tender or delicate person → 1553 obs.
► HOT-HOUSE PLANT a delicate girl → 1934 students’ sl. (Bk.)
► ICTER a small or delicate person → 1918 Amer. dial.
► MOTHER’S PET a spoiled or delicate child → 1819
► NESCOCK a delicate, spiritless, or timid person → 1775 colloq.
► NESTCOCK an effeminate man who stays much at home; a man who has never travelled; a delicate, spiritless, or timid person → 1674 obs.
► NESTLE-COCK the last-hatched bird, or weakling of a brood; hence, a mother’s pet; a spoiled or delicate child or youth → 1626 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► NICELING an effeminate, tender, or delicate person → 1549 obs.
► RAANY ► RANNY an emaciated, stunted, or delicate looking person → 1954 Ulster sl.
► SICKLING a sickly or delicate person → 1834
► TETUZ anything tender; a delicate person → 1824 Sc. obs.
► TIDDLING ► TIDLING a pampered or spoiled child; a darling, a pet; a young, delicate, or puny child in need of special care; a weakling → 1520 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► WEED a thin and unhealthily delicate person → 1869 sl. 
► WINDLE a weak, delicate child → 1777 Eng. dial.
► WINNICK a sickly person; a puny, delicate child → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)

PHRASES
► NOT TO BE SALT not to be delicate, or easily made ill → 1794 Sc.

VERBS
► BE NEITHER SUGAR NOR SALT to not be delicate or easily made ill → 1880 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► EGG to move delicately → 1887 Amer. dial.
► NICEFY to make dainty or delicate; to make respectable or decent → 1611
► TENDER to make soft or delicate → 1966 Amer. dial.