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Dainty vs Blingy - What's the difference?

dainty | blingy |

As adjectives the difference between dainty and blingy

is that dainty is excellent; valuable, fine while blingy is shiny, glittery.

As a noun dainty

is esteem, honour.

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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    blingy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (slang) shiny, glittery
  • * 2007 , Bongani Madondo, Hot type: icons, artists, and god-figurines
    • Kanye, who had a blingy neck chain with Jesus icon - a Jesus Christ with aquatic blue, diamond eyes - tried, unsuccessfully, to get the jeweller to turn Christ's eyes darker and the whole icon a shade darker than it was.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=May 31, author=Christine Muhlke, title=Cookbooks, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Adam Perry Lang is at the opposite end of the grilling spectrum, a blingy S.U.V. to Mallmann’s muddy old Land Rover. }}