mince

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Finely chopped meat; minced meat.

   “Mince tastes really good fried in a pan with some chopped onion and tomato.”

2. isim Finely chopped mixed fruit used in Christmas pies; mincemeat.

   “During Christmas time my dad loves to eat mince pies.”

3. isim 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.”

4. isim 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.”

5. isim 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.”

6. isim Something worthless; rubbish.

   “That band's new album is total mince.”

7. fiil To make less; to make small.
8. fiil To lessen; to diminish; to diminish in speaking; to speak of lightly or slightingly; to minimise.
9. fiil To effect mincingly.
10. fiil To cut into very small pieces; to chop finely.

    “Butchers often use machines to mince meat.”

11. fiil To suppress or weaken the force of.

    “Siren, now mince the sin, / And mollify damnation with a phrase.”

12. fiil To say or utter vaguely (not directly or frankly).

    “to mince one's words”

13. fiil To affect; to pronounce affectedly or with an accent.

    “In some districts of England ll is sounded like w, thus bowd (booud) for BOLD, bw (buu) for BULL, caw (kau) for CALL. But this pronunciation is merely a provincialism, and not to be imitated unless you wish to mince like these blunderers.”

14. fiil To walk with short steps; to walk in a prim, affected manner.

    “At the last moment Mollie, the foolish, pretty white mare who drew Mr. Jones's trap, came mincing daintily in, chewing at a lump of sugar.”

15. fiil To act or talk with affected nicety; to affect delicacy in manner.

    “I love going to gay bars and seeing drag queens mince around on stage.”