Noun: dainty
| Singular | dainty |
| Plural | dainties |
Sample Sentences
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And she receyued hym with grete Ioye and made hym to sytte doune by her and soo was he sette to soupe with flesshe and many deyntees
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And she received him with great joy, and made him to sit down by her, and so was he set to sup with flesh and many dainties. [1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur Book XVI, Chapter vii leaf 337r:]
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[…]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. [1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe:]
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And now a maiden […] ſupplied them, next, / With a reſplendent table, which the chaſte / Directreſs of the ſtores furniſh'd with bread / And dainties, remnants of the laſt regale. [1791, Homer, “[The Odyssey.] Book I.”, in W[illiam] Cowper, transl., The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, Translated into Blank Verse, […], volume II, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC, page 9, lines 172 and 174–177:]
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I am not eager at forbidden dainties [1616, Ben Jonson, The Devil Is an Ass:]
Nouns inflected like dainty
clitoridectomy,
royal jelly,
whoopsy,
surrogacy,
urinary,
rastrography,
renoscopy,
sourtop blueberry,
forcible entry,
superficiary,
lipidosity,
potability,
phonography,
hyperproperty,
greenery,
conjugality,
ring singularity,
Brittany,
ignobility,
obscurity, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English deynte (as noun), from Old French deintié, from Latin dignitātem. Doublet of dignity. See: Middle English Nouns '
deynte'.