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It is also possible they are a corruption of poppet, poppit, poppette, poopet, from the French poupette doll, an endearment still used though ancient, poppet being the name for a pretty child or a dainty young woman.
I dream'd this mortal part of mineWas Metamorphoz'd to a Vine;Which crawling one and every wayEnthralled my dainty Lucia .Me thought, her long small legs & thighsI with my Tendrils did surprize;Her Belly, Buttocks, and her WasteBy my soft Nerv'lits were embrac'd :About her head I writhing hung,And with rich clusters (hid amongThe leaves) her temples I behung:So that my Lucia seem'd to meYoung Bacchus ravisht by his tree.My curles about her neck did craule,And armes and hands they did enthrall;So that she could not freely stir,(All parts there made one prisoner.)
The chief complaints: 1) Wilde's sharp edge has been dulled--it's "likable" and "handsome" but "diluted" (Stephen Holden, the New York Times ); 2) the story "unfolds with all the urgency of a dainty tea napkin" (Susan Wloszczyna, USA Today ); and 3) the plot, a blackmail scheme with many moral quandaries to resolve, ends too tidily and happily for its own good.
At ground level, seedy or amusing ( depending on your point of view) shops sell sex wares, attracting customers from all walks of life; but don’t get too distracted, else you’ll miss the rows of dainty gables, quirky wall plaques, and window boxes brimming with flowers, which give the whole area a cheery feel.
In 1590 Shakespeare used it in his A Midsummer Night's Dream, v. i 282: O dainty ducke, a deere.
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