minces

Noun

mince (countable and uncountable, plural minces)

1. (uncountable) Finely chopped meat; minced meat.
   • Mince tastes really good fried in a pan with some chopped onion and tomato.
2. (uncountable) Finely chopped mixed fruit used in Christmas pies; mincemeat.
   • During Christmas time my dad loves to eat mince pies.
3. (countable) An affected (often dainty or short and precise) gait.
   • 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.1949, Truman Capote, “Children on their Birthdays”, in A Tree of Night and Other Stories, page 36
4. (countable) An affected manner, especially of speaking; an affectation.
   • 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.1896, George Bernard Shaw, “Madame Sans-Gene”, in London Saturday Review
5. (Cockney, countable, in plural, slang) An eye (from mince pie).
   • Lancashire is a bit nazi about speed and the M6 in that area can be either clear or infested with vans and their helicopter. On the good side the vans tend to be on well sighted bridges so just keep the old minces peeled.2009 May 21, planetdave, “Speed traps”, in PistonHeads, retrieved 22 Mar 2017
6. (UK, slang, uncountable) Something worthless; rubbish.
   • That band's new album is total mince.

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