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Dainty vs Daint - What's the difference?

dainty | daint |

In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between dainty and daint

is that dainty is (obsolete) excellent; valuable, fine while daint is (obsolete) dainty.

As adjectives the difference between dainty and daint

is that dainty is (obsolete) excellent; valuable, fine while daint is (obsolete) dainty.

As a noun dainty

is (obsolete) esteem, honour.

As an adverb daint is

(geordie) do not, don't.

dainty

English

Noun

(dainties)
  • (obsolete) Esteem, honour.
  • A delicacy.
  • * 1719 , (Daniel Defoe), (Robinson Crusoe)
  • my case was deplorable enough, yet I had great cause for thankfulness that I was not driven to any extremities for food, but had rather plenty, even to dainties .
  • * (William Cowper)
  • [A table] furnished plenteously with bread, / And dainties , remnants of the last regale.
  • (Canada, Prairies and northwestern Ontario) A fancy cookie, pastry, or square served at a social event (usually plural).
  • (obsolete)
  • (Ben Jonson)

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (obsolete) Excellent; valuable, fine.
  • *, II.13:
  • Heliogabalus the most dissolute man of the world, amidst his most riotous sensualities, intended, whensoever occasion should force him to it, to have a daintie death.
  • Elegant; delicately small and pretty.
  • * Milton
  • Those dainty limbs which nature lent / For gentle usage and soft delicacy.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1 , passage=However, with the dainty volume my quondam friend sprang into fame. At the same time he cast off the chrysalis of a commonplace existence.}}
  • Fastidious and fussy, especially when eating.
  • * Francis Bacon
  • They were a fine and dainty people.
  • * Shakespeare
  • And let us not be dainty of leave taking, / But shift away.

    Synonyms

    * neat * petite

    References

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    daint

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Dainty.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spendser, The Faerie Queene , I.x:
  • to cherish him with diets daint , / She cast to bring him, where he chearen might [...].

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (Geordie) do not, don't
  • (West Midlands) didn't
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