Where does daintiful come from?

It is traced to Middle English.

daintiful

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"The greedy old dowagers in their descent take freely enough. But the fresh-run clean fish are mighty daintiful as regards the baits we present for their acceptance."

From Middle English dayntefull, deyntefull, deintefull, equivalent to dainty + -ful.

more daintiful (comparative) most daintiful (superlative)

daintifully

dainty

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