mince

noun · verbA2

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noun

Plural noun:

mincesminchminse

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.
4.
(countable)An affected manner, especially of speaking; an affectation.
5.
(Cockney, countable, in plural, slang)(countable, Cockney rhyming slang, chiefly in the plural) An eye (from mince pie).
6.
(UK, slang, uncountable)Something worthless; rubbish.
That band's new album is total mince.

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verb

V_es/s

minces

V_ing/Gerund

mincing

V_ed/pp

mincedminch

1.
(transitive)To make less; to make small.
2.
(transitive)To lessen; to diminish; to diminish in speaking; to speak of lightly or slightingly; to minimise.
Đồng nghĩa: abase, abate, belittle, besmall, bring down, embase, cut, decrease, decrement, diminish, foreshorten, lessen, lilliputianize, lower, mince, minimize, reduce, shrink, smallify
3.
(rare, transitive)To effect mincingly.
4.
(transitive)(transitive, cooking) To cut into very small pieces; to chop finely.
Butchers often use machines to mince meat.
5.
(archaic, figuratively, transitive)To suppress or weaken the force of.
Đồng nghĩa: extenuate, palliate, weaken
6.
To say or utter vaguely (not directly or frankly).
to mince one's words
a minced oath
7.
(transitive)To affect; to pronounce affectedly or with an accent.
One may hear some speakers in Oxford mince brother into brover (brëvë); Bath into Baf; both into bof.
8.
(intransitive)To walk with short steps; to walk in a prim, affected manner.
9.
(intransitive)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.

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Đồng nghĩa

abase abate belittlebesmallbring downembase cutdecreasedecrement diminishforeshortenlessenlilliputianizelower minimize reduce shrinksmallifyextenuate palliate

Cùng gốc / liên quan

mincythick as mince

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Nguồn gốc từ

ine-pro From Middle English mincen, minsen; partly from Old English minsian, ġeminsian (to make less, make smaller, diminish), from *minnisōn, from Proto-Germanic *minnisōną (to make less); partly from Old French mincer, mincier (to cut into small pieces), from mince (slender, slight, puny), from *minsto, *minnisto, superlative of *min, *minn (small, less), from Proto-Germanic *minniz (less);