daintily
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Etymology[edit]
From Middle English deyntely; equivalent to dainty + -ly.
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daintily (comparative more daintily, superlative most daintily)
- In a dainty manner, delicately.
- c. 1615–1616, Francis Beaumont; John Fletcher, “Loves Pilgramage, a Comedy”, in Fifty Comedies and Tragedies. […], [part 2], London: […] J[ohn] Macock [and H. Hills], for John Martyn, Henry Herringman, and Richard Marriot, published 1679, OCLC 1015511273, Act I, scene i, page 69, column 2:
- Has he beſpoke, what will he have a brace, / Or but one Partridge, or a ſhort-leg'd Hen, / Daintyly carbonado'd?
- 1945 August 17, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 1, in Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 3655473:
- 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.
- 2019 October 18, Nintendo EPD, Ring Fit Adventure, Nintendo, Nintendo Switch, scene: extra turn, level/area: Beaut Camp:
- [Allegra]'s daintily readjusting her stance.
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