mince

Etymology
From, ; partly from , , from , from ; partly from , , from , from , , superlative of , , from ; both from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. More at.

Noun

 * 1)  Finely chopped meat; minced meat.
 * 2)  Finely chopped mixed fruit used in Christmas pies; mincemeat.
 * 3)  An affected (often dainty or short and precise) gait.
 * 4)  An affected manner, especially of speaking; an affectation.
 * 5)  An eye (from ).
 * 6)  Something worthless; rubbish.
 * 1)  An affected manner, especially of speaking; an affectation.
 * 2)  An eye (from ).
 * 3)  Something worthless; rubbish.
 * 1)  An eye (from ).
 * 2)  Something worthless; rubbish.
 * 1)  An eye (from ).
 * 2)  Something worthless; rubbish.
 * 1)  Something worthless; rubbish.
 * 1)  Something worthless; rubbish.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: maalvleis
 * Apache:
 * Western Apache: itsį’ ik’aaní
 * Arabic: لَحْم مَفْرُوم
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: qiymə
 * Belarusian: фарш
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: carn picada, carn picolada, carn capolada, carn trinxada
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 肉碎, 免治
 * Mandarin:, , , 免治肉
 * Cornish: kig divynys
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:, viande hachée
 * Georgian:
 * German:, , , ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: περίκομμα, ἰσίκιον
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:, hachita karno
 * Indonesian: daging cincang
 * Irish: mionfheoil
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, 肉餡
 * Kazakh:
 * Korean: 민스미트, 고기소
 * Latin: minūtal
 * Lithuanian: zuikis, faršas
 * Macedonian: мелено месо
 * Malay: daging cincang
 * Maori: mīti kōnatunatu, mīti mōrohe
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: татсан мах
 * Mongolian: ᠲᠠᠲᠠᠭᠰᠠᠨ ᠮᠢᠬ᠎ᠠ
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, farse
 * Nynorsk: kjøttdeig, kjøtdeig, farse
 * Ottoman Turkish: قیمه
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi: ਕ਼ੀਮਾ
 * Romanian: carne tocată
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: mions
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: млевено месо, мљевено месо
 * Latin: mleveno meso, mljeveno meso
 * Spanish:, carne picada, carne molida
 * Swedish:, malet kött
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen:
 * Ukrainian: фарш
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: thịt băm, thịt vằm
 * Welsh:
 * Yiddish: האַקפֿלייש, קרעפּלפֿלייש


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Finnish:
 * Norwegian: tripping


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Finnish: ,

Verb

 * 1)  To make less; to make small.
 * 2)  To lessen; to diminish; to diminish in speaking; to speak of lightly or slightingly; to minimise.
 * 3)  To effect mincingly.
 * 4)  To cut into very small pieces; to chop finely.
 * 5)  To suppress or weaken the force of.
 * 6) To say or utter vaguely (not directly or frankly).
 * 7)  To affect; to pronounce affectedly or with an accent.
 * 8) * 1905, George Henderson, The Gaelic Dialects, IV, in the Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie, published by Kuno Meyer and L. Chr. Stern, volume 5, page 98:
 * One may hear some speakers in Oxford mince brother into brover (brëvë); Bath into Baf; both into bof.
 * 1)  To walk with short steps; to walk in a prim, affected manner.
 * 2)  To act or talk with affected nicety; to affect delicacy in manner.
 * 1)  To affect; to pronounce affectedly or with an accent.
 * 2) * 1905, George Henderson, The Gaelic Dialects, IV, in the Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie, published by Kuno Meyer and L. Chr. Stern, volume 5, page 98:
 * One may hear some speakers in Oxford mince brother into brover (brëvë); Bath into Baf; both into bof.
 * 1)  To walk with short steps; to walk in a prim, affected manner.
 * 2)  To act or talk with affected nicety; to affect delicacy in manner.
 * 1) * 1905, George Henderson, The Gaelic Dialects, IV, in the Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie, published by Kuno Meyer and L. Chr. Stern, volume 5, page 98:
 * One may hear some speakers in Oxford mince brother into brover (brëvë); Bath into Baf; both into bof.
 * 1)  To walk with short steps; to walk in a prim, affected manner.
 * 2)  To act or talk with affected nicety; to affect delicacy in manner.
 * 1)  To act or talk with affected nicety; to affect delicacy in manner.
 * 1)  To act or talk with affected nicety; to affect delicacy in manner.
 * 1)  To act or talk with affected nicety; to affect delicacy in manner.
 * 1)  To act or talk with affected nicety; to affect delicacy in manner.

Usage notes
Current usage in the sense of "to say or utter vaguely" is mostly limited to the phrase "mince words"; e.g., "I won't mince words with you".

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:
 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 切碎
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician: ,
 * Georgian:
 * German:, , kleinhacken
 * Greek: ,
 * Italian: ,
 * Khmer:
 * Macedonian: меле
 * Maori: kōnatunatu
 * Mongolian:
 * Nepali:
 * Norman: hadgi
 * Norwegian: finhakke
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Quechua: ichiy
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: བཙབས
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese: ,


 * Bulgarian:
 * German:, ,
 * Italian:
 * Russian:


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Norwegian: trippe
 * Quechua: ichiy
 * Russian:


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * Greek: πουστοφέρνω

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) coin

Etymology 1
Derived from the verb, from , from (cf. also ), from.

Adjective

 * 1) thin, slim, slender

Etymology 2
A minced oath of.

Interjection

 * 1) drat!, darn!
 * 2) wow!, blimey!