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mincing en · ADJ

Meanings

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. 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 2”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:

Forms

Deriveds

mincingly · mincingness · unmincing

Translations (5)

bg превзет (affectedly dainty) · bg префърцунен (affectedly dainty) · pl afektowany (affectedly dainty) · nl geaffecteerd (affectedly dainty) · mi whakameamea (affectedly dainty)

mincing en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The act by which something is minced.
   • After three or four mincings with a coarse blade the product was passed two or three times through a fine blade. 1931, The Journal of Biological Chemistry, volume 90, page 689:
2. (countable, uncountable) Affected dainty speech or movement.
   • 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. 1975, R. M. Koster, The Dissertation, page 118:

Forms

mincing en · VERB

Meanings

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of mince
   form of mince