Mince

Definition: Mince

Mince

Noun

1. Food chopped into small bits: "a mince of mushrooms".

Verb

1. Make less severe or harsh; "He moderated his tone when the students burst out in tears".

2. Walk daintily.

3. Cut into small pieces; "mince the garlic".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "mince" was first used: 1381. (references)

Note: Mince \Mince\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Minced; Minging.]. (references)

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Mince

Affectation

Verb: affect, act a part, put on; give oneself airs; (arrogance); boast; coquet; simper, mince, pose; flirt a fan; overact, overdo.

Affirmation

As God is my witness, I must say, indeed, i' faith, let me tell you, why, give me leave to say, marry, you may be sure, I'd have you to know; upon my word, upon my honor; by my troth, egad, I assure you; by jingo, by Jove, by George; troth, seriously, sadly; in sadness, in sober sadness, in truth, in earnest; of a truth, truly, perdy, in all conscience, upon oath; be assured; (belief); yes; (assent); I'll warrant, I'll warrant you, I'll engage, I'll answer for it, I'll be bound, I'll venture to say, I'll take my oath; in fact, forsooth, joking apart; so help me God; not to mince the matter.

Artlessness

Adverb: in plain words, in plain English; without mincing the matter; not to mince the matter; (affirmation).

Disjunction

Cut up, carve, dissect, anatomize; dislimb; take to pieces, pull to pieces, pick to pieces, tear to pieces; tear to tatters, tear piecemeal, tear limb from limb; divellicate; skin; disintegrate, dismember, disbranch, disband; disperse; dislocate, disjoint; break up; mince; comminute; (pulverize); apportion.

Falsehood

Prevaricate, equivocate, quibble; palter, palter to the understanding; repondre en Normand; trim, shuffle, fence, mince the truth, beat about the bush, blow hot and cold, play fast and loose.

Fastidiousness

Mince the matter; turn up one's nose at; (disdain); look a gift horse in the mouth, see spots on the sun.

Food

Beef, bisquit, bun; cornstarch; cookie, cooky; cracker, doughnut; fatling; hardtack, hoecake, hominy; mutton, pilot bread; pork; roti, rusk, ship biscuit; veal; joint, piece de resistance, roast and boiled; remove, entremet; releve, hash, rechauffe, stew, ragout, fricassee, mince; pottage, potage, broth, soup, consomme, puree, spoonmeat; pie, pasty, volauvent; pudding, omelet; pastry; sweets; kickshaws; condiment.

Alligator pear, apple; apple slump; artichoke; ashcake, griddlecake, pancake, flapjack; atole, avocado, banana, beche de mer, barbecue, beefsteak; beet root; blackberry, blancmange, bloater, bouilli, bouillon, breadfruit, chop suey; chowder, chupatty, clam, compote, damper, fish, frumenty, grapes, hasty pudding, ice cream, lettuce, mango, mangosteen, mince pie, oatmeal, oyster, pineapple, porridge, porterhouse steak, salmis, sauerkraut, sea slug, sturgeon ("Albany beef"), succotash, supawn, trepang, vanilla, waffle, walnut.

Slowness

Verb: move slowly; adVerb: creep, crawl, lag, slug, drawl, linger, loiter, saunter; plod, trudge, stump along, lumber; trail, drag; dawdle; (be inactive); grovel, worm one's way, steal along; job on, rub on, bundle on; toddle, waddle, wabble, slug, traipse, slouch, shuffle, halt, hobble, limp, caludicate, shamble; flag, falter, trotter, stagger; mince, step short; march in slow time, march in funeral procession; take one's time; hang fire; (be late).

Stammering

Mumble, mutter; maud, mauder; whisper; mince, lisp; jabber, gibber; sputter, splutter; muffle, mump; drawl, mouth; croak; speak thick, speak through the nose; snuffle, clip one's words; murder the language, murder the King's English, murder the Queen's English; mispronounce, missay.

Vindication

Extenuate, palliate, excuse, soften, apologize, varnish, slur, gloze; put a gloss, put a good face upon; mince; gloss over, bolster up, help a lame dog over a stile.

Crosswords: Mince

Czech (coin, piece, small change), French (flimsy, gaunt, lean, skinny, slender, slight, slim, tenuous, thin, thinning, willowy).

Girls, let's not mince a lot of words here (Hershe Highway; writing credit: Selma Lagerlöf; Bengt Wennehorst-Norrman)

Mince Meat Room (1901)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• The 2000-2005 Outlook for Beef and Veal Mince in North America & the Caribbean (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Memed le Mince (reference)

• Mes 101 [i.e. cent un] conseils pour vivre mince par les médecines naturelles (reference)

• Mince ou grosse? : histoire du corps idéal (reference)

• Mince Pie and Mistletoe. (reference)

• Tasty Mince Cookbook (Hawthorn Mini Series) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "mince": he doesn't mince his word ♦ mince matters ♦ mince meat ♦ mince one's steps ♦ mince one's words ♦ mince pie ♦ mince the meat ♦ mince the truth ♦ not to mince matters ♦ not to mince the matter. Additional references.

Beginning with "mince": mince-beef, Mince-meat, mince-pie, mince-stained.

Ending with "mince": Thalgo-mince.

Albanian

mish i grirë (forcemeat, minced meat, mincemeat, sausage meat), zbut (allay, amortise, amortize, appease, assuage, attenuate, break, calm, chasten, commute, daunt, disarm, ease, extenuate, malaxate, manage, melt, mitigate, moderate, modify, mollify, palatalize, palliate, propitiate, qualify, reclaim, relax, relieve, smooth, soften, soothe, subdue, tame, temper, tenderize, tone down), thërrmoj (comminute, crumb, crumble, crush, fritter, pestle), pres (amputate, anticipate, await, be asking for, be expecting, be on the watch, be waiting, bide, buck, chop, clip, coin, cut, cut away, cut open, detruncate, disforest, dissect, entertain, expect, exscind, fell, hew, host, knife, look for, look forward to, mint, Nick, notch, obtruncate, poll, prune, screw, section, sever, shut off, sit on the fence, slash, slot, snip, take, Tarry, undercut, wait, ween, whack), grij (canker, chew, cut into pieces, grate, grind, hash, scour, scrape, shred), flas me kujdes, eci me delikatesë. (various references)

Arabic 

‏فرم (chop, devil, hash, rip), ‏مفروم, ‏لفظ متصنعا, ‏قطع صغيرة جدا من شىء مفروم, ‏تخطر (vacillate, vacillation), ‏تبختر (loll, lope, parade, ponce about, prance, strut, swagger, waddle). (various references)

Bulgarian 

смекчавам (break down, chastise, correct, cushion, extenuate, humanize, lighten, melt, mitigate, moderate, modify, mollify, palliate, qualify, quiet, retouch, season, smooth out, soften, subdue, tame, temper, turn, water down), ситня (patter, pit-a-pat), ходя с дребни крачки, кълцано месо (mincemeat), кълцам (chop, hack, snip), кайма (forcemeat, mincemeat), говоря глезено, говоря превзето, омекотявам (attemper, mellow), меля (grind, jaw, mill), държа се превзето (prim). (various references)

Chinese 

剁碎 . (various references)

Czech

sekaná (meat loaf), rozsekat (hack up, hash), potlaèit (contain, cork up, crush, fight down, hold back, hold in, inhibit, keep in, put down, quash, quell, quench, repress, scotch, smother, snuff out, stamp out, stifle, stop, subdue, suppress, tame). (various references)

Danish

mince(hakket eller separeret fiskekød). (various references)

Dutch

fijnhakken (chop, dice), fýnhakken (chop, chop up, dice). (various references)

Esperanto

haketi (chop, dice). (various references)

Farsi 

قیمه کردن , قیمه (Executrix), گوشت قیمه , حرف خودراخوردن , تلویحاگفتن , خردکردن (Break, Comminute, Crash, Cutdown, Disintegrate, Fragment, Grind, Hack, Hash, Impinge, Infract, Joint, Mangle, Mash, Maul, Pestle, Shatter, Shiver, Smash, Smite, Squelch), ریزه (Bit, Chip, Midget, Particle, Shiver, Teeny), ریزریزکردن (Chop, Comminute). (various references)

French

marcher en trémoussant, marcher à petit pas maniérés, parler du bout des lèvres, hachis de viande, hacher, chair hachée de poisson, bifteck haché. (various references)

German

zerhacken (chop up, hack up, hew up, to chop up, to mince), trippeln (dance around, Frisk, scamper, scurry, scuttle, to trip, toddle, trip), tänzeln (Bob, flounce, prance, sashay, skip, trip), sich geziert benehmen, sich geziert ausdrücken, scharwenzeln (dance attendance, fawn), haschieren (grind), hackfleisch (ground meat, hamburger, minced meat, mincemeat), hackepeter (ground meat, minced meat), hacken (chop, chop at, chopping, cut, grind, hack, heel, hoe, hoes, mattocks, Peck, pick, to chop), Gehacktes, gehackte (ground meat, minced meat), durch den fleischwolf drehen. (various references)

Greek 

ακκίζομαι (act affectedly, smirk). (various references)

Hebrew 

קציץ, בשר טחון (mincemeat), רסק בשר. (various references)

Hungarian

vagdalék (casserole, hash, snippet), hasé (hash). (various references)

Indonesian

mengiris, cincang (chop, hack). (various references)

Italian

mitigare (abate, allay, alleviate, assuage, attanuate, become mild, calm down, lessen, lighten, loosen, mitigate, palliate, relax, relieve, soften, soothe), tritare (chop, chop up, crush, grind, hash, kibble, mangle, mash), tagliuzzare (chop, shred, Whittle), parlare con affettazione, carne tritata (hash), camminare a passettini. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

メル友 (a friend with whom one corresponds by e-mail, a motion, being falling down drunk, maintenance, Mauser, melodious, melodrama, melody, melon, member, member name, members, member's card, membership, Memphis, Mendel, mendelevium, menses, mensheviki, menswear, mental, mental health, mental test, mentalistic, mentality, menthol, meringue, mince cutlet, mortgage, soap opera). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

メンチ . (various references)

Korean 

다지십시요. (various references)

Pig Latin

incemay.(various references)

Portuguese

medir palavras, requebrar-se, picar (bite, chop, goad, hack, hag, hash, jab, pick, pique, point, prick, prickle, punch, spall, stab, stick, sting, swot, tingle), picadinho de carne, diminuir (abridge, assuage, commute, cut down, dampen, decline, decrease, derogate, detract, diminish, dock, dwarf, dwindle, extenuate, fall, impair, lessen, lower, minify, pass off, rebate, reduce, relax, retrench, shorten, shrink, sink, wear down, whittle), cortarempedaçospequenos (chop, dice), cortar em pedaços (joint), carne picada (hash, mince meat, minced meat), apoucar (minify), andar com afetação. (various references)

Romanian

mãrunţi (chip), tocãturã (farce, filling, hash, stuffing), toca (bother, chat, chop, hack, hash, hew, melt, squander), tãia mãrunt (chaff, chip), fãrâmiţa (crumble, granulate, pestle), carne tocatã (dressing, forcemeat, mincemeat). (various references)

Russian 

крошить (chop up, crumb, fritter, mincing). (various references)

Scottish

prainnseag (mince collops). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ublažiti (alleviate, attemper, become tempered, buff, cushion, dull, ease, lessen, mitigate, moderate, mollify, palliate, redeem, soft pedal, soften, soothe, temper, tone down), prenemagati se (whine), iseckati (hack, haggle, shred), iseckano meso. (various references)

Spanish

picar (bite, chop, cut up, dive, goad, grind, harass, hash, itch, jab, key in, lip, needle, nibble, nip, pick, ping, pink, pique, pit, pound, prick, prickle, prod, punch, smart, stab, stick, sting). (various references)

Swedish

trippa (go pit-a-pat, go pitter-patter, pit-a-pat, pitter patter, trip), tala fint, finhacka (chop finely). (various references)

Thai

เดินกระย่องกระแย่ง, พูดอ้อมค้อม, สับ (hack at, hash). (various references)

Turkish

kıymak (chop up, hack, sacrifice, sliver, solemnize), kıyma (chop meat, chopping up, ground beef, ground meat, hamburger, minced meat, mincing), kırıtmak (behave coquettishly, swagger), ince doğramak, önemsiz göstermek. (various references)

Turkmen 

eljiremek (be prim). (various references)

Ukrainian

фарш (farce, forcemeat), кришити (chop, crumble, shred), пропускати через м'ясорубку. (various references)

Vietnamese 

thịt vụn, thịt thái nhỏ, thịt băm. (various references)

Welsh

mursennu (coquette), malu (chop, grind, smash), rhygyngu (amble, caper). (various references)

minutus. (various references)

mincier. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "mince": minced, mincemeat, mincemeats, mincer, mincers, minces. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Mince" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cince, emince, Macnee, Mainace, mancer, mancle, mancy, meinie, mence, menche, Menck, Mencl, Menke, Menken, menshe, micel, micet, Mijnssen, minaccia, Minack, minc, minca, mincet, minceur, minch, Minchem, Mincher, mincu, mincy, minde, mindeg, Minka, minke, minki, Minkie, Minkler, Minko, minky, minne, minoe, minse, minte, misce, Monceau, Moncer, monice, monke, muncey, myinge, rince, tince. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: cine, emic, mice, mien, mine, nice.

-2 letters: ice, men, nim.

-3 letters: em, en, in, me, mi, ne.

+1 letter: anemic, cinema, iceman, icemen, income, minced, mincer, minces, neumic.

+2 letters: amnesic, anaemic, carmine, centime, centimo, chimney, cinemas, combine, demonic, encomia, endemic, enzymic, genomic, incomer, incomes, machine, melanic, menisci, mesonic, mincers, mincier, nematic, numeric, pemican, tonemic.

+3 letters: ambiance, ambience, amercing, amnesiac, amnesics, amnestic, analcime, anoxemic, becoming, calamine, cameoing, camphine, carmines, centimes, centimos, centrism, chainmen, chairmen, chimneys, coinmate, combined, combiner, combines, comedian, comingle, compline, creaming, cremains, daemonic, demoniac, economic, ecumenic, emceeing, eminence, eminency, encomium, endemics, endermic, eponymic, feminacy, germanic, gynecium, inchmeal, incomers, incumber, intercom, lemnisci, limacine, limnetic, machined, machines, maenadic, magnesic, magnetic, manciple, manicure, mechanic, meconium, medicine, melanics, menacing, meniscal, meniscus, minciest, mnemonic, monecian, monicker, munchies, mycelian, myelinic, myogenic, neomycin, neumatic, nickname, noncrime, numerics, pandemic, pemicans, pemmican, pentomic, phonemic, pitchmen, scheming, semantic, sermonic, specimen, stickmen, sycamine, tenesmic, urinemic.