daintily

adv
/ˈdeɪntɪli/UK

Etymology

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

  1. inherited from deyntely

Definitions

  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.

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