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present participle and gerund of mince examples
comparative more mincing, superlative most mincing
Affectedly dainty. quotations examples
"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. […]
countable and uncountable, plural mincings
The act by which something is minced. quotations examples
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
Affected dainty speech or movement. quotations examples
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