What's the difference between dainty and yummy?

Dainty


Definition:

  • (n.) That which is delicious or delicate; a delicacy.
  • (n.) A term of fondness.
  • (n.) Value; estimation; the gratification or pleasure taken in anything.
  • (superl.) Rare; valuable; costly.
  • (superl.) Delicious to the palate; toothsome.
  • (superl.) Nice; delicate; elegant, in form, manner, or breeding; well-formed; neat; tender.
  • (superl.) Requiring dainties. Hence: Overnice; hard to please; fastidious; squeamish; scrupulous; ceremonious.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Had they bothered to inquire of a veteran from the ranks, they might have heard how exasperating it is to see the dainty long-range patriots of Labour thrashing it out with the staunch gutter jingoists of the Conservative party – and barely a non-commissioned vet among them.
  • (2) Across this relatively peaceful corner of the Horn of Africa, where black-headed sheep scamper among the thorn bushes, dainty gerenuk balance on their hind legs to nibble from hardy shrubs, and skinny camels wearing rough-hewn bells lumber over rocky slopes, people long accustomed to a harsh environment find they cannot cope after years of below-average rainfall.
  • (3) That was the week when the Bake Off contestants were called on to make dainty biscuits and elaborate gingerbread concoctions, following previous showdowns over who could make the fluffiest muffins and the creamiest custard tarts.
  • (4) His dainty close control was beautiful and took him past both Pique and Puyol; then, from 10 yards, he deliberately poked the ball wide of Casillas with his right foot, and it came flush off the post.
  • (5) Ighalo clearly had the beating of Otamendi and Eliaquim Mangala, while Touré, playing in a midfield two alongside Fernandinho, had his ego pricked by a couple of dainty touches from José Manuel Jurado.
  • (6) Their denial fits perfectly with their support for free market economics, opposition to state intervention and hatred of all those latte-slurping, quinoa-munching liberals, with their arrogant manners and dainty hybrid cars, who presume to tell honest men and women how to live.
  • (7) From the outset, Arsenal had been the more sprightly and inventive, and that pattern continued when Cesc Fábregas clipped a dainty ball over the Spurs defence for Nasri to chase.
  • (8) Muamba dinked a deft reverse pass to Cattermole, who slipped a dainty ball behind the German defence in anticipation of a surge by Walcott.
  • (9) They are laughing at the dainty affectations of the Leawoof toffs.
  • (10) After a semi-final that saw platters of immaculate choux swans, jewel-coloured macaroons and dainty sponges put before the judges, the technical challenge – a stand of sweet fondant fancies, nestled, pink and delicious as if awaiting a party of angelic children – was a reminder that even a GBBO finalist still needs the guidance of Berry.
  • (11) Balotelli peeled off his marker to run on to it and then, from 10 yards, tried to lift a dainty lob over the advancing goalkeeper ... but it was the finish of a dilletante rather than a deadly striker and the ball dropped meekly wide.
  • (12) StickmanLA Life at the old soldiers' hotel In drama, seaside hotels are usually inhabited by retired colonels and majors in blazers, and dainty elderly ladies.
  • (13) From her oddly dainty presence that voice, a voice that seemed not to come from her but from somewhere beyond even Billie and Ella, from the font of all greatness.
  • (14) In person she is dainty, almost exaggeratedly ladylike, and much more playfully ambivalent than the public debate about her book.
  • (15) On Friday, Johnson and Dan Hannan said that in all probability the number of foreigners coming here won’t fall I am not going to be over-dainty about mendacity.
  • (16) Perhaps now is the time to reach for altogether plainer tableware and glasses, for Kaj Frank bowls at one end of the price range, but more likely to Duralex tumblers at the other as we face a future of, as it were, porridge and tap water rather than the fine wines and dainty dishes it's hard not to associate with Waterford and Wedgwood.
  • (17) A mong the many strangers to personal daintiness in Game of Thrones is a character called Shagga son of Dolf.
  • (18) And it was a goal of impressive daintiness, to boot.
  • (19) 3.00am GMT Packers 21 - 49ers 21, 0:03 2nd quarter Kaepernick is a maniac - there is no dainty QB slide with him.
  • (20) Jason Puncheon did well to recycle the ball to Yohan Cabaye after Albion cleared a corner and the Frenchman floated a dainty cross over Dawson towards the back post.

Yummy


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) You may be greeted with a shotgun and a suspicious snarl as we were – then a plate of yummy moose meat, cooked on a blazing fire.
  • (2) If we stay beautiful we’re sexually objectified as selfish, entitled “yummy mummies” or Milfs.
  • (3) But M&S has tried to target by age – so there's a yummy mummy section, an aging squares department and a pensioners' aisle.
  • (4) He once told a journalist that he stayed so thin because he ate "baby food" but he meant "comfort food", leading to the oft-repeated and not entirely unbelievable notion of him subsisting on Cow & Gate Yummy Harvest Chicken.)
  • (5) All these places, especially Good 2 Go Taco, offer vegetarian and healthy options that are just as yummy.
  • (6) Throw in, too, the challenge of what it means to be a good enough parent, given what economist Heather Boushey calls the "ship-has-sailed reality" that only the richest can afford to keep a full-time yummy mummy in the house.
  • (7) For picnic supplies, the yummy Monkland Cheese Dairy is excellent for replacing any fat you burned off during your swim.
  • (8) "Thirty years ago my husband wasn't even allowed in the delivery room – you can't imagine that happening now," a yummy mummy's mummy told me.
  • (9) It was a cultural ideal, and probably bore no more relation to the lives of working mothers than the Yummy Mummy did to mothers who didn't work.
  • (10) If that’s for the yummy-mummy crowd, Richard Nicoll worked with Sweaty Betty – hardly a brand on most London fashion week designers’ radars – to design something that fits in with the rest of us.
  • (11) Watercress and lentil salad in a citrus dressing Angela Kim's yummy watercress and lentil salad.
  • (12) 9.38am BST Tristram Hunt , the new shadow education secretary, once dismissed free schools as "a vanity project for yummy mummies".
  • (13) "Yummy mummys" – or "yummy mummys and John" as it was known until I complained that the name implied I wasn't yummy – is what our neonatal class became when it moved from the health centre to a cafe, and our children moved from inside to outside.
  • (14) It's a beautiful film called Learning to Drive and it stars me and Ben Kingsley and it's delicious and yummy and funny, funny, funny, and very moving."
  • (15) As shadow education secretary he has made a few gaffes that may have infuriated the very middle Englanders he seeks to woo, including referring to parents who like free schools as “yummy mummies” and questioning whether nuns make good teachers.