Dainty vs Blimey - What's the difference?
dainty | blimey |
(obsolete) Esteem, honour.
A delicacy.
* 1719 , (Daniel Defoe), (Robinson Crusoe)
* (William Cowper)
(Canada, Prairies and northwestern Ontario) A fancy cookie, pastry, or square served at a social event (usually plural).
(obsolete)
(obsolete) Excellent; valuable, fine.
*, II.13:
Elegant; delicately small and pretty.
* Milton
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Fastidious and fussy, especially when eating.
* Francis Bacon
* Shakespeare
(UK, Australia, New Zealand)
* 1945 , , British Mysteries'', in ''The Kenneth Roberts Reader , 2002,
* 2007 , Penny Vincenzi, The Dilemma ,
* 2011 , Duncan Campbell, If It Bleeds ,
As a noun dainty
is (obsolete) esteem, honour.As an adjective dainty
is (obsolete) excellent; valuable, fine.As an interjection blimey is
(uk|australia|new zealand).dainty
English
Noun
(dainties)- 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 .
- [A table] furnished plenteously with bread, / And dainties , remnants of the last regale.
- (Ben Jonson)
Adjective
(er)- 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.
- Those dainty limbs which nature lent / For gentle usage and soft delicacy.
- They were a fine and dainty people.
- And let us not be dainty of leave taking, / But shift away.
Synonyms
* neat * petiteReferences
*blimey
English
Alternative forms
* blimyInterjection
(en interjection)- Blimey ! I didn't see that!
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- “Blimey'!” he says in his rough, shepherd's voice, “' blimey , but it?s cruel ?ard to be chucked out of one?s digs wivout a blarsted word!”
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- ‘Blimey ,’ said Barnaby. ‘Come on, Jack, quick as you can.’
- ‘Blimey',’ said Jack. ‘' Blimey blimey blimey .’
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- ‘Blimey ,’ said Laurie. ‘But how would he know that the Old Bill are going to swallow that? It?s a bit bloody obvious that someone must have planted it on Petrov, isn?t it?’