1. (

• dainty ,
• delicacy ,
• goody ,
• kickshaw ,
• treat

) something considered choice to eat ;

1. (

• dainty ,
• exquisite

) delicately beautiful; "a dainty teacup"; "an exquisite cameo" ;

2. (

• dainty

) especially pleasing to the taste; "a dainty dish to set before a kind" ;

3. (

• dainty ,
• nice ,
• overnice ,
• prissy ,
• squeamish

) excessively fastidious and easily disgusted; "too nice about his food to take to camp cooking"; "so squeamish he would only touch the toilet handle with his elbow" ;