Mince

Mince tastes really good fried in a pan with some chopped onion and tomato.

During Christmas time my dad loves to eat mince pies.

A wiry little girl in a starched, lemon-colored party dress, she sassed along with a grownup mince, one hand on her hip, the other supporting a spinsterish umbrella.

She was just the same; she had a light way of walking and she always wore flat heels so she didn't have that mince like most girls.

His skin was china pale, he walked with a slight mince, and his silver mustache was always trimmed sharp; it was his custom to send a bouquet of pink carnations to the wives of men with whom he dined.

A very moderate degree of accomplishment in this direction would make an end of stage smart speech, which, like the got-up Oxford mince and drawl of a foolish curate, is the mark of a snob.

And, further, who has not heard what someone has christened the "Oxford" mince, where every consonant is mispronounced and every vowel gets a wrong value?

[...] a smiling man, portly and impressive, coming toward them with a dignified mince in his walk.

Lancashire is a bit nazi about speed and the M6 in that area can be either clear or infested with vans and their helicopter. On the good side the vans tend to be on well sighted bridges so just keep the old minces peeled.

That band's new album is total mince.

Butchers often use machines to mince meat.

Siren, now mince the sin, / And mollify damnation with a phrase.

to mince one's words

a minced oath

I know no ways to mince it in love, but directly to say — "I love you."

Despite prolonged exposure to harsh conditions, medics say Nora Tallis returned to the Nexus in stable condition. In a statement to HNS, Tallis did not mince words. "Never send me to that hellhole again."

In some districts of England ll is sounded like w, thus bowd (booud) for BOLD, bw (buu) for BULL, caw (kau) for CALL. But this pronunciation is merely a provincialism, and not to be imitated unless you wish to mince like these blunderers.

One may hear some speakers in Oxford mince brother into brover (brëvë); Bath into Baf; both into bof.

"[…]The preacher said it was sympathetic," she minced the word, remembering Mr. Larsen's manner.

At the last moment Mollie, the foolish, pretty white mare who drew Mr. Jones's trap, came mincing daintily in, chewing at a lump of sugar.

The daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, mincing as they go.

I'll […] turn two mincing steps into a manly stride.

I love going to gay bars and seeing drag queens mince around on stage.