Dainty vs Fussy - What's the difference?
dainty | fussy | Synonyms |
(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
Anxious or particular about petty details.
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*:It is never possible to settle down to the ordinary routine of life at sea until the screw begins to revolve. There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy .
Having a tendency to fuss, cry, or be ill-tempered (especially of babies).
As adjectives the difference between dainty and fussy
is that dainty is excellent; valuable, fine while fussy is anxious or particular about petty details.As a noun dainty
is esteem, honour.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.