Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A Scotch form of
dainty .
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Examples
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I've known some on 'em do as mich, and some o 't' bonniest and mimmest-looking, too - ay, I've seen clean, trim young things, that looked as denty and pure as daisies, and wi 'time a body fun' 'em out to be nowt but stinging, venomed nettles. '
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modern horror all-too-often falls flat for me, because i inevitably find myself watching events unfold and smacking my forehead 'till it's all denty-like. what kind of 6-toed, buck-toothed inbred yokel BEHAVES this way in a crisis situation?
bad movies and the tangents they prompt:: moriarty6 2004
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"It's a bonnie show and denty, an 'no wunner the lassies stan' and stare.
Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush Ian Maclaren 1878
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How oficn since the 31st. of July have I wished fo? 'my Brail sford; never have I beheld a beautiful prospect, l; ut I thought with how much more pleasure I should enjoy it, if you Were with me, and with what satisfaction we should join in adoring the Divine hand, whicii so bountifully clothes the earth with elegance, and enriches it with [denty for the conveoien -
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