daintily

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
12
Words With Friends
13
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/ˈdeɪntɪli/(UK)

Definition of daintily

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adv

  1. In a dainty manner, delicately.
    “SATURNINUS: Go fetch them hither to us presently. TITUS: Why, there they are, both baked in that pie, Whereof their mother daintily hath fed, Eating the flesh that she herself hath bred.”
    “Has he beſpoke, what will he have a brace, / Or but one Partridge, or a ſhort-leg'd Hen, / Daintyly carbonado'd?”
    “At the last moment Mollie, the foolish, pretty white mare who drew Mr. Jones's trap, came mincing daintily in, chewing at a lump of sugar.”
    “[Allegra]'s daintily readjusting her stance.”

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Etymology

From Middle English deyntely; equivalent to dainty + -ly.

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