Associations to the word «Mince»

MINCE, noun. (uncountable) Finely chopped meat.

MINCE, noun. (uncountable) Finely chopped mixed fruit used in Christmas pies; mincemeat.

MINCE, noun. (countable) An affected (often dainty or short and precise) gait.

MINCE, noun. (countable) An affected manner, especially of speaking; an affectation.

MINCE, verb. (transitive) To make less; make small.

MINCE, verb. (transitive) To lessen; diminish; to diminish in speaking; speak of lightly or slightingly; minimise.

MINCE, verb. (transitive) (rare) To effect mincingly.

MINCE, verb. (transitive) (cooking) To cut into very small pieces; to chop fine.

MINCE, verb. (transitive) 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.

MINCE, verb. (transitive) To affect; to pronounce affectedly or with an accent.

MINCE, verb. (intransitive) To walk with short steps; to walk in a prim, affected manner.

MINCE, verb. (intransitive) To act or talk with affected nicety; to affect delicacy in manner.

MINCE, verb. (archaic) To diminish the force of.

MINCE PIE, noun. A pie, traditionally served around Christmas time, having a filling of mincemeat (in the sweet sense) and sometimes also containing alcohol or other ingredients.

MINCE PIE, noun. (Cockney rhyming slang) Eye, usually in the plural form.

MINCE PIES, noun. Plural of mince pie

MINCE PIES, noun. (Cockney rhyming slang) eyes

MINCE WORDS, verb. (idiomatic) To restrain oneself in a conversation by withholding some comments or using euphemisms.

MINCE, noun. Food chopped into small bits; "a mince of mushrooms".

MINCE, verb. Make less severe or harsh; "He moderated his tone when the students burst out in tears".

MINCE, verb. Walk daintily; "She minced down the street".

MINCE, verb. Cut into small pieces; "mince the garlic".