Mincing
adj, noun, verb ·2 syllables ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The act by which something is minced. countable, uncountable
"After three or four mincings with a coarse blade the product was passed two or three times through a fine blade."
- 2 Affected dainty speech or movement. countable, uncountable
"My father, León Fuertes, was a fag three years; a roaring faggot; a lisping, smirking fruit; […] He put on all the trappings of inversion: the twittered mouthings, the hyper-feminine moues, the languid mincings."
- 1 present participle and gerund of mince form-of, gerund, participle, present
- 1 Affectedly dainty.
""Is there nothing to eat in the house?" he asked, insolently, as if to a servant. In certain stages of his intoxication he affected the clipped, mincing speech of the towns. Mrs. Morel hated him most in this condition."
- 1 affectedly dainty or refined wordnet
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More examples"Mary cut herself while she was mincing onions."
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