Meaning

(uncountable) Finely chopped meat; minced meat..

Definitions by Sense

1. (uncountable) Finely chopped meat; minced meat.
2. (uncountable) Finely chopped mixed fruit used in Christmas pies; mincemeat.
3. (countable) An affected (often dainty or short and precise) gait.
4. (countable) An affected manner, especially of speaking; an affectation.
5. (countable, Cockney rhyming slang, chiefly in the plural) An eye (from mince pie).
6. (UK, slang, uncountable) Something worthless; rubbish.
7. (transitive) To make less; to make small.
8. (transitive) To lessen; to diminish; to diminish in speaking; to speak of lightly or slightingly; to minimise.

Example Sentences

Mince tastes really good fried in a pan with some chopped onion and tomato.

During Christmas time my dad loves to eat mince pies.

A wiry little girl in a starched, lemon-colored party dress, she sassed along with a grownup mince, one hand on her hip, the other supporting a spinsterish umbrella.

She was just the same; she had a light way of walking and she always wore flat heels so she didn't have that mince like most girls.

His skin was china pale, he walked with a slight mince, and his silver mustache was always trimmed sharp; it was his custom to send a bouquet of pink carnations to the wives of men with whom he dined.

A very moderate degree of accomplishment in this direction would make an end of stage smart speech, which, like the got-up Oxford mince and drawl of a foolish curate, is the mark of a snob.

And, further, who has not heard what someone has christened the "Oxford" mince, where every consonant is mispronounced and every vowel gets a wrong value?

[...] a smiling man, portly and impressive, coming toward them with a dignified mince in his walk.

Word Forms

• minces
• minch
• minse
• mincing
• minced

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Use mince when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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