mincing

English

Verb

mincing

1. present participle and gerund of mince

Adjective

mincing (comparative more mincing, superlative most mincing)

1. 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

affectedly dainty

• Bulgarian: превзет (bg) (prevzet), префърцунен (bg) (prefǎrcunen)
• Dutch: geaffecteerd (nl)
• Maori: whakameamea

Noun

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.