mince

mɪns

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#1·17h ago

(uncountable) Finely chopped meat; minced meat.

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

Origin: From , minsen; partly from , ġeminsian, from , from ; partly from , to cut into small pieces, from slender, slight, puny, from , *minnisto, superlative of *min, small, less, from ; both from . Cognate with , , , , . More at min. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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#2·17h ago

(uncountable) Finely chopped mixed fruit used in Christmas pies; mincemeat.

During Christmas time my dad loves to eat mince pies.

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#3·17h ago

(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.

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