mincing

Affectedly dainty.

Adjective

  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....

Forms

more mincing most mincing

Derived

mincingly mincingness unmincing

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,...

Forms

mincings

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of mince