daint

See also: dain't

English

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /deɪnt/
Audio (Southern England) (file)

Adjective

daint (comparative more daint, superlative most daint)

(obsolete) Dainty.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
  […] to cherish him with diets daint,
  She cast to bring him, where he chearen might […]

Adverb

daint (not comparable)

(Tyneside) do not, don't
(West Midlands) didn't

Anagrams

idant, tinda

Romansch

Alternative forms

dent (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan)

Etymology

From Latin dēns, dentem, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃dénts, *h₃dónts.

Noun

daint m (plural daints)

(anatomy, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Puter, Vallader) tooth

Derived terms

pasta da daints

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