mincing

adj, noun — 3 senses

mincing

adj

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:

Derived terms: mincingly, mincingness, unmincing

mincing

noun

1

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

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:

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