MINCE

mince

Noun

  1. Finely chopped meat.
    Mince tastes really good fried in a pan with some chopped onion and tomato.
  2. Finely chopped mixed fruit used in Christmas pies; mincemeat.
    During Christmas time my dad loves to eat mince pies.
  3. An affected (often dainty or short and precise) gait.
  4. An affected manner, especially of speaking; an affectation.

Verb

  1. To make less; make small.
  2. To lessen; diminish; to diminish in speaking; speak of lightly or slightingly; minimise.
  3. To effect mincingly.
  4. To cut into very small pieces; to chop fine.
    Butchers often use machines to mince meat.
  5. To suppress or weaken the force of; to extenuate; to palliate; to tell by degrees, instead of directly and frankly; to clip, as words or expressions; to utter half and keep back half of.
    I know no ways to mince it in love, but directly to say — "I love you." —
    To mince one's words
    a minced oath
  6. To affect; to pronounce affectedly or with an accent.
  7. To walk with short steps; to walk in a prim, affected manner.
  8. To act or talk with affected nicety; to affect delicacy in manner.
    I love going to gay bars and seeing drag queens mince around on stage.
  9. To diminish the force of.


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