DA'INTY, adjective 1. Nice; pleasing to the palate; of exquisite taste; delicious; as dainty food. 2. Delicate; of acute sensibility; nice in selecting what is tender and good; squeamish; soft; luxurious; as a dainty taste or palate; a dainty people. 3. Scrupulous in manners; ceremonious. 4. Elegant; tender; soft; pure; neat; effeminately beautiful; as dainty hands or limbs. 5. Nice; affectedly fine; as a dainty speaker. DA'INTY, noun 1. Something nice and delicate to the taste; that which is exquisitely delicious; a delicacy. Be not desirous of dainties, for they are deceitful meat. Proverbs 23:3 2. A term of fondness. Why, that's my dainty Shak.
Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary ↗ · public-domain · returned verbatim, no AI