How to pronounce “mince”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (uncountable) Finely chopped meat; minced meat.
• (uncountable) Finely chopped mixed fruit used in Christmas pies; mincemeat.
• (countable) An affected (often dainty or short and precise) gait.
• (countable) An affected manner, especially of speaking; an affectation.
• (countable, Cockney rhyming slang, chiefly in the plural) An eye (from mince pie).
• (UK, slang, uncountable) Something worthless; rubbish.
• [Verb]
• (transitive) To make less; to make small.
• (transitive) To lessen; to diminish; to diminish in speaking; to speak of lightly or slightingly; to minimise.
• (transitive, rare) To effect mincingly.
• (transitive, cooking) To cut into very small pieces; to chop finely.
• (archaic, transitive, figuratively) To suppress or weaken the force of.
• To say or utter vaguely (not directly or frankly).
• (transitive) To affect; to pronounce affectedly or with an accent.
• (intransitive) To walk with short steps; to walk in a prim, affected manner.
• (intransitive) To act or talk with affected nicety; to affect delicacy in manner.

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