mincing — English Dictionary

Adjective

1. Affectedly dainty.

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   "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.

Noun

1. The act by which something is minced.

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   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.

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   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.

Adjective

1. affectedly dainty or refined

   Synonyms

   niminy-piminyprimtwee