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| mince | |
| 1. n. Finely chopped meat. |  |
| Mince tastes really good fried in a pan with some chopped onion and tomato. | |
| 2. n. Finely chopped mixed fruit used in Christmas pies; mincemeat. | |
| During Christmas time my dad loves to eat mince pies. | |
| 3. n. An affected (often dainty or short and precise) gait. | |
| 4. n. An affected manner, especially of speaking; an affectation. | |
| 5. n. (Cockney rhyming slang) An eye (from mince pie). | |
| 6. v. To make less; make small. | |
| 7. v. To lessen; diminish; to diminish in speaking; speak of lightly or slightingly; minimise. | |
| 8. v. (transitive, rare) To effect mincingly. | |
| 9. v. (transitive, cooking) To cut into very small pieces; to chop fine. | |
| Butchers often use machines to mince meat. | |
| 10. v. To suppress or weaken the force of; to extenuate; to palliate; to tell by degrees, instead of directly and frankly; to clip, as words or expressions; to utter half and keep back half of. | |
| To mince one's words | |
| a minced oath | |
| 11. v. To affect; to pronounce affectedly or with an accent. | |
| 12. v. (intransitive) To walk with short steps; to walk in a prim, affected manner. | |
| 13. v. (intransitive) To act or talk with affected nicety; to affect delicacy in manner. | |
| I love going to gay bars and seeing drag queens mince around on stage. | |
| 14. v. (archaic) To diminish the force of. | |
