mincing
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English
[edit]Verb
[edit]mincing
- present participle and gerund of mince
Adjective
[edit]mincing (comparative more mincing, superlative most mincing)
- Affectedly dainty.
- 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 2”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:
- "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.
Translations
[edit]affectedly dainty
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Noun
[edit]mincing (countable and uncountable, plural mincings)
- 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.
- 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.