dainty vs eat

dainty

noun
  • A delicacy (in taste). 

  • A fancy cookie, pastry, or square, frequently homemade, served at a social event. 

adj
  • Fastidious and fussy, especially when eating. 

  • Elegant; delicately small and pretty. 

eat

noun
  • Something to be eaten; a meal; a food item. 

verb
  • To consume (an exception, an event, etc.) so that other parts of the program do not receive it. 

  • To be injured or killed by (something such as a firearm or its projectile), especially in the mouth. 

  • To take the loss in a transaction. 

  • To cause (someone) to worry. 

  • To consume a meal. 

  • To be eaten. 

  • To corrode or erode. 

  • To perform oral sex (on a person or body part). 

  • To consume money (or other instruments of value, such as a token) deposited or inserted by a user, while failing to either provide the intended product or service or return the payment. 

  • To destroy, consume, or use up. 

  • To have a particular quality of diet; to be well-fed or underfed (typically as "eat healthy" or "eat good"). 

  • To damage, destroy, or fail to eject a removable part or an inserted object. 

  • To be very good; to rule; to rock. 

  • To consume (something solid or semi-solid, usually food) by putting it into the mouth and swallowing it. 

How often have the words dainty and eat occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )