mincing

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Verb

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mincing

  1. present participle and gerund of mince

Adjective

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mincing (comparative more mincing, superlative most mincing)

  1. Affectedly dainty.

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Noun

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mincing (countable and uncountable, plural mincings)

  1. The act by which something is minced.
    • 1931, The Journal of Biological Chemistry, volume 90, page 689:
      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.
    • 1975, R. M. Koster, The Dissertation, page 118:
      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.