mincingn.

Brit.

/ˈmɪnsɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈmɪnsɪŋ/

Forms: see mince v. and -ing suffix¹.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mince v., -ing suffix¹.

Etymology: < mince v. + -ing suffix¹.

a. The action of extenuating, minimizing, palliating, or glossing over a matter; the suppression of part of a fact or statement. In later use chiefly: the moderation of one's language.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > duty or obligation > moral or legal constraint > immunity or exemption from liability > excuse > [noun] > offering an excuse > extenuation

glozing1377

colouring?1435

mincing1533

palliationa1538

polishing1646

extenuation1651

mitigation1664

α.

1533 T. More Debellacyon Salem & Bizance i. xiv. f. xcix The myncyng of suche maters.

a1591 H. Smith Wks. (1866–7) I. 449 A spiritual ear can hear God reproving this land for this mincing of his worship.

1668 E. Howard Usurper iii. 41 Let me have no mincing of the Treason, Nor washing a fowl word.

1701 J. Norris Ess. Ideal World I. ii. 131 What means this mincing and this disguising of a plain and unavoidable truth?

1710 Brit. Apollo 29–31 May Add and edad is only a mincing of by G—d.

1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VII. lxxvi. 253 All shall be set forth in words at length. No mincing of the matter. Names undisguised as well as facts.

1867 Felton's Greece, Anc. & Mod. I. 100 If they [sc. Homer's characters] get angry, out it comes,..with no mincing of phrase.

1899 J. London in Overland Monthly Aug. 117 So he talked to her, sternly, without mincing of words, and initiated her into the weaknesses of his own sex.

1909 Daily Chron. 20 July 1/5 We will stand no mincing, and unless Lord Lansdowne and his landlordly friends choose to eat their own mince up again Parliament will be dissolved.

1997 Guardian (Electronic ed.) 27 Feb. 22 The research note..had the odd softening touch and stuck to a formal ‘hold’ recommendation for investors. But there was precious little mincing of words within the analysis.

β. 1604 T. Wright Passions of Minde (1620) 290 It is admirable how the minching and particularizing of the object of delight increaseth and augmenteth delight.

b. The action or habit of speaking or acting in an affectedly refined or elegant manner. In later use (usually derogatory, with reference to a man): effeminacy, effete behaviour.

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the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > [noun] > affected delicacy

briding1566

mincedness1583

finicality1594

mignardise1603

mincing1623

finicalness1675

daintification1780

gingerliness1842

finicism1844

mincingness1853

preciosity1867

preciousness1884

1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII ii. iii. 31 Which guifts (Sauing your mincing) the capacity Of your soft Chiuerell Conscience, would receiue.

1697 C. Leslie Snake in Grass (ed. 2) 41 Thou, and thy Godfather Fox can know a Saint from a Devil, without speaking, but not without a little Mincing and Prinking.

1749 D. Garrick Let. 18 July (1963) I. 98 My Indisposition..has secur'd Us Yet from the Mimping & the Mincing; but..we must Expect very soon..customary Visitations.

1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth xii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 304 Such shalt thou be, for all thy mincing and ambling [etc.].

1864 ‘W. Lancaster’ Eclogues & Monodramas 15 Yet this very man Secure in his importance, holds us cheap as bumpkins..And counts his apeish mincings as the trick Of true gentility.

1925 Amer. Mercury Jan. 112/2 None of your straddling, mincing, sadying; but a regular sifter, cut-the-buckle, chicken-flutter set-to.

1997 E. Jong Inventing Memory iii. 68 I knew..by his uxoriousness and Cooney's mincing, that they ate together, slept together, and banked together, and that the fine ladies of Palm Beach were thrusting out their bosoms for naught.

2. The action of grinding or cutting up into very small pieces; (concrete) a small shred or piece (of meat, etc.).

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > cut or piece of meat > [noun] > small piece of meat

smatchcock14..

mincing1598

tucet1653

nut1769

taver1808

skewer-piece1832

thumb-bit1847

médaillon1899

medallion1907

the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a separate part > a piece or bit > small piece

fingereOE

snedec1000

seed?a1200

morselc1300

bittlock?a1400

farthingc1405

spota1413

lipetc1430

offe?1440

drewc1450

remnantc1450

parcel1483

crap1520

flakec1525

patch1528

spark1548

a piece1559

sparklec1570

inch1573

nibbling?1577

scantling1585

scrat1593

mincing1598

scantle1598

halfpenny1600

quantity1600

nip1606

kantch1608

bit1609

catch1613

scripa1617

snap1616

sippeta1625

crumblet1634

scute1635

scantleta1642

snattock1654

cantlet1700

tab1729

pallion1738

smallness1818

knobble1823

wisp1836

the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > action of dividing or divided condition > division by cutting > [noun] > into small pieces

mincing1598

1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Mincings, mammocks, shreds or small peeces.

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §54 Mincing of meat, as in Pies,..saueth the Grinding of the Teeth.

1638 W. Rawley tr. F. Bacon Hist. Nat. & Exper. Life & Death 317 Gravies of Meat, and the Mincings of them small, well seasoned.

a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 948/1 Wide Spade (Whaling), used to cut the blubber in the rough, before mincing.

1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 797 Scarification consists in a mincing of the lupus tissue by the knife.

1961 People's Jrnl. 16 Sept. 3 Four thousand pounds of mincing is used every week for mince, sausages and sausage meat.

1981 Cook's Mag. Mar. 16/1 The galley also possessed a wide assortment of electrically driven machines which performed in a flash the more mundane chores of potato peeling, whisking, mincing and slicing.

Compounds

† mincing-horse n. North American Whaling Obsolete a wooden stand on which whale blubber is chopped.

ΚΠ

1846 J. R. Browne Etchings Whaling Cruise 56 In connection with the mincing knife should be mentioned the ‘mincing horse’, which is simply a board about three feet long and ten inches wide.

1874 C. M. Scammon Marine Mammals N. Amer. 238 The blubber is transported in strap-tubs to the mincing-horse, where the ordinary two-handled knife is used.

mincing knife n. a knife used in mincing meat, etc.; (North American Whaling) †one for cutting up blubber into small pieces (obsolete).

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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > knife

dressing knife1362

trencher-knife1392

bread knife1432

kitchen knife1433

dresser knifea1450

carving-knifea1475

sticking knife1495

chipper1508

chipping knife1526

butcher's knife1557

striking knife1578

mincing knife1586

cook's knife1599

oyster knife1637

randing knife1725

stick knife1819

chopping-knife1837

carver1839

butch knife1845

fish-carver1855

fruit-knife1855

rimmer1876

throating knife1879

steak knife1895

paring knife1908

society > occupation and work > industry > whaling and seal-hunting > whaling > cutting up whale or seal > [noun] > knife or hook

blubber-spade1820

spade1820

strand knife1820

tail-knife1820

blubber-hook1835

whale-spade1852

mincing knifea1884

1586 in W. Greenwell Wills & Inventories Registry Durham (1860) II. 149 ij minsinge knives.

1634 in J. O. Halliwell Anc. Inventories (1854) 18 3 beefe forks, 2 mincinge knyves, 1 cleaver [etc.].

1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick liv. 283 It was then that Steelkilt proposed to the two Canallers..to burst out of their hole..and armed with their keen mincing knives..run a muck from the bowsprit to the taffrail.

1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Suet-chopper, a mincing knife for cutting up suet.

a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 610/2 Mincing-knife (Whaling), for cutting the blubber into small pieces.

1992 C. Hardyment Home Comfort ix. 136 French chopping knives were specially strong; mincing knives had a firm wooden handle along the blade, to make chopping meat finely for mince easier .

mincing machine n. a machine for mincing meat, etc.; spec. one for cutting up whale blubber.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > mincer

manglerc1840

mincing machine1850

mincer1858

ricer1889

meat-grinder1934

1850 New Eng. Farmer 2 379 Sausage or Mincing Machine.

a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 610/2 Mincing machine, a machine with knives on a roller, used in cutting blubber small for trying.

1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 31 Mar. 3/2 The Eastbourne board of guardians have ordered a mincing machine to be supplied for the use of aged and toothless paupers in their workhouse.

1956 G. Durrell Drunken Forest vii. 131 I had purchased in Ascunción a gigantic mincing machine.

1993 M. Hoffmann Corona, Corona 41 The shoe shops sold mincing machines, hats and aluminium buckets shared a shelf, paper and iron went together.

† mincing spade n. Obsolete rare an implement used for cutting up whale blubber.

ΚΠ

a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 610/2 Mincing spade (Whaling), used in cutting up the blubber for trying out.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

mincingadj.

Brit.

/ˈmɪnsɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈmɪnsɪŋ/

Forms: see mince v. and -ing suffix²; also Scottish pre-1700 minsing.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mince v., -ing suffix².

Etymology: < mince v. + -ing suffix².

a. Of speech, manner, behaviour, physical features, attributes, etc.: affectedly dainty, elegant, or mannered.In later (usually derogatory) use often associated with an effeminate or effete manner or behaviour in a man, esp. a homosexual man.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > [adjective] > affecting delicacy > characterized by affected delicacy

mincing1530

minced?1542

minsicala1586

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 830/2 A mynsynge pace, le pas menu.

1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice iii. iv. 67 Ile..turne two minsing steps into a manly stride.

1635 T. Heywood Philocothonista 44 To title a drunkard by, wee..strive to character him in a more mincing and modest phrase; as thus:—Hee is a good fellow, or A boone Companion, A mad Greeke, A true Trojan.

1647 J. Howell New Vol. of Lett. 9 The fawning, and soft glances of a mincing smile.

1727 A. Pope et al. Περι Βαθους: Art of Sinking 67 in J. Swift et al. Misc.: Last Vol. The Finical [style]..consists of the most curious, affected, mincing Metaphors.

1737 Gentleman's Mag. Apr. 214/1 It were yet Mischief enough to have our whole Populace used to sip warm Water in a mincing effeminate Manner once or twice a Day.

1776 F. Burney Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1990) II. 212 Her voice low & delicate & mincing.

a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Pimegenet, a very delicate and mincing diminutive of piemgenet for pomegranate.

1846 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) i. 6 Possibly her mincing gait encouraged the belief, and suggested that her clipping of a step of ordinary compass into two or three, originated in her habit of making the most of everything.

1861 ‘G. Eliot’ Silas Marner iii. 48 ‘Oho!’, said Dunsey..trying to speak in a small mincing treble.

1893 A. Griffiths Secrets Prison House II. iv. ii. 63 She walked with a mincing, self-satisfied air down the passage.

1903 J. H. Millar Lit. Hist. Scotl. 317 A mincing and quasi-genteel lingo of their own (the sort of English known in some quarters as ‘Princes Street’ or ‘Kelvinside’).

1959 M. Renault Charioteer (new ed.) xii. 289 The face could still be read, as it were, between the lines; faint traces were left in it of a mincing, petulant kind of good looks.

1972 S. Birmingham Late John Marquand xxiii. 217 Gene Tunney..for all the roughness of his trade as a prize fighter, had an elegant, almost mincing speaking style.

1998 Guardian (Electronic ed.) 14 Feb. He was a miniature, blond, beautiful, homosexual boy, with a high-pitched voice and a mincing walk, and obvious writing talent.

b. Of a person, etc.: speaking, walking, or behaving, in an affectedly dainty or refined manner. In later usually derogatory use, of a man (esp. a homosexual man): effeminate, effete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > [adjective] > affecting delicacy

minikin1545

mincing1560

miniard1584

finical1592

minic1598

nice-mouthed1618

finitive1640

finicking1661

minical1668

precious1712

précieuse1785

niminy-piminy1786

pershittie1808

miminy-piminy1815

finicky1825

nimpy-pimpy1825

niminy1878

too-tooa1884

piminy1890

précieux1891

piss-elegant1941

1560 T. Ingelend Disobedient Child D j b This myncing Trull.

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. ii. sig. O5 Fitt mate for such a mincing mineon.

1637 J. Milton Comus 33 As Mercury did first devise With the mincing Dryades On the lawns.

1700 J. Dryden Fables Pref. sig. *C^v Distinguish'd from each other, as much as the mincing Lady Prioress, and the broad-speaking gap-tooth'd Wife of Bathe.

1751 F. Coventry Hist. Pompey the Little i. v. 50 My Lady's Maid..this delicate, mincing Comb-brusher.

a1822 P. B. Shelley Peter Bell III iii, in Poet. Wks. (?1840) 240/1 There are mincing women, mewing..Of their own virtue.

1849 G. P. R. James Woodman I. vii. 143 I can be as delicate and mincing as a serving maid should need be.

1887 A. J. C. Hare Jrnl. 18 July in Story of my Life (1900) VI. xxiv. 94 [She] frightened a mincing curate out of his life.

1901 Scribner's Mag. Apr. 413/2 To stand there and see those mincing cobs go by, their pad-housings all a-glitter.

1926 E. von Arnim Introd. to Sally iv. 51 In the presence of her loveliness, what a mere mincing worm he was.

1988 R. Christiansen Romantic Affinities i. 6 Chénier is never chilly or formal, never the mincing beau one encounters so often in love poetry.

1993 R. Shilts Conduct Unbecoming v. xlix. 460 He anticipated furtive homosexuals, mincing men, transvestites and lesbians in male drag.

2. That minimizes, extenuates, or diminishes; palliative.

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society > morality > duty or obligation > moral or legal constraint > immunity or exemption from liability > excuse > [adjective] > extenuating

mincing1581

mitigating1583

extenuating1607

favourable1693

palliating1710

palliative1748

extenuatory1807

extenuative1827

palliatory1845

mitigatory1868

1581 T. Howell His Deuises sig. I.iij My symple meaning plaine, not carued with mincing stile.

1599 J. Rainolds Overthrow Stage-playes 108 My speech was too minsing, when I named bawderie. If I had termed it most filthy beastly bawderie, my wordes had bene broder, though not brode enough yet.

a1640 J. Ball Answer to Iohn Can (1642) i. 127 Your minsing figure of extenuation.

1778 S. Scott in J. Doran Lady of Last Cent. (1873) x. 242 I hate those mincing names, designed only to palliate wrong actions.

1827 W. Scott Jrnl. 10 Mar. (1941) 32 The mincing English edition in which he has hitherto been alone known.

1880 Appletons' Jrnl. Mar. 283 It is difficult to avoid feeling that this cautious, mincing, grudging criticism is peculiarly out of place when exercised upon one who was the most modest and least exacting of authors.

1993 R. Hughes Culture of Complaint i. 27 Touchiness about animals and fish has also given us such mincing euphemisms as ‘harvest’ for kill, presumably as in Fenimore Cooper's novel The Deerharvester.

Compounds

† mincing-pincing adj. Obsolete rare refined and clipped in sound.

ΚΠ

1822 T. Moore in Mem. (1853) IV. 7 The mincing-pincing style of talking among the French women.

Derivatives

ˈmincingness n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > [noun] > affected delicacy

briding1566

mincedness1583

finicality1594

mignardise1603

mincing1623

finicalness1675

daintification1780

gingerliness1842

finicism1844

mincingness1853

preciosity1867

preciousness1884

1853 Househ. Words 24 Sept. 76/2 When your ladyship does condescend to speak English, it is only with a delightful mincingness of accent and a liberal use of superlatives.

1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt II. xix. 62 That frigid mincingness called dignity.

1904 E. von Arnim Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen 262 Her eyes were discreetly fixed on a Wiener Schnitzel that she was eating with a singular mincingness.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	mincing
释义	mincingn. Brit. /ˈmɪnsɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈmɪnsɪŋ/ Forms: see mince v. and -ing suffix¹. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mince v., -ing suffix¹. Etymology: < mince v. + -ing suffix¹. 1. a. The action of extenuating, minimizing, palliating, or glossing over a matter; the suppression of part of a fact or statement. In later use chiefly: the moderation of one's language. ΘΚΠ society > morality > duty or obligation > moral or legal constraint > immunity or exemption from liability > excuse > [noun] > offering an excuse > extenuation glozing1377 colouring?1435 mincing1533 palliationa1538 polishing1646 extenuation1651 mitigation1664 α. 1533 T. More Debellacyon Salem & Bizance i. xiv. f. xcix The myncyng of suche maters. a1591 H. Smith Wks. (1866–7) I. 449 A spiritual ear can hear God reproving this land for this mincing of his worship. 1668 E. Howard Usurper iii. 41 Let me have no mincing of the Treason, Nor washing a fowl word. 1701 J. Norris Ess. Ideal World I. ii. 131 What means this mincing and this disguising of a plain and unavoidable truth? 1710 Brit. Apollo 29–31 May Add and edad is only a mincing of by G—d. 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VII. lxxvi. 253 All shall be set forth in words at length. No mincing of the matter. Names undisguised as well as facts. 1867 Felton's Greece, Anc. & Mod. I. 100 If they [sc. Homer's characters] get angry, out it comes,..with no mincing of phrase. 1899 J. London in Overland Monthly Aug. 117 So he talked to her, sternly, without mincing of words, and initiated her into the weaknesses of his own sex. 1909 Daily Chron. 20 July 1/5 We will stand no mincing, and unless Lord Lansdowne and his landlordly friends choose to eat their own mince up again Parliament will be dissolved. 1997 Guardian (Electronic ed.) 27 Feb. 22 The research note..had the odd softening touch and stuck to a formal ‘hold’ recommendation for investors. But there was precious little mincing of words within the analysis. β. 1604 T. Wright Passions of Minde (1620) 290 It is admirable how the minching and particularizing of the object of delight increaseth and augmenteth delight. b. The action or habit of speaking or acting in an affectedly refined or elegant manner. In later use (usually derogatory, with reference to a man): effeminacy, effete behaviour. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > [noun] > affected delicacy briding1566 mincedness1583 finicality1594 mignardise1603 mincing1623 finicalness1675 daintification1780 gingerliness1842 finicism1844 mincingness1853 preciosity1867 preciousness1884 1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII ii. iii. 31 Which guifts (Sauing your mincing) the capacity Of your soft Chiuerell Conscience, would receiue. View more context for this quotation 1697 C. Leslie Snake in Grass (ed. 2) 41 Thou, and thy Godfather Fox can know a Saint from a Devil, without speaking, but not without a little Mincing and Prinking. 1749 D. Garrick Let. 18 July (1963) I. 98 My Indisposition..has secur'd Us Yet from the Mimping & the Mincing; but..we must Expect very soon..customary Visitations. 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth xii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 304 Such shalt thou be, for all thy mincing and ambling [etc.]. 1864 ‘W. Lancaster’ Eclogues & Monodramas 15 Yet this very man Secure in his importance, holds us cheap as bumpkins..And counts his apeish mincings as the trick Of true gentility. 1925 Amer. Mercury Jan. 112/2 None of your straddling, mincing, sadying; but a regular sifter, cut-the-buckle, chicken-flutter set-to. 1997 E. Jong Inventing Memory iii. 68 I knew..by his uxoriousness and Cooney's mincing, that they ate together, slept together, and banked together, and that the fine ladies of Palm Beach were thrusting out their bosoms for naught. 2. The action of grinding or cutting up into very small pieces; (concrete) a small shred or piece (of meat, etc.). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > cut or piece of meat > [noun] > small piece of meat smatchcock14.. mincing1598 tucet1653 nut1769 taver1808 skewer-piece1832 thumb-bit1847 médaillon1899 medallion1907 the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a separate part > a piece or bit > small piece fingereOE snedec1000 seed?a1200 morselc1300 bittlock?a1400 farthingc1405 spota1413 lipetc1430 offe?1440 drewc1450 remnantc1450 parcel1483 crap1520 flakec1525 patch1528 spark1548 a piece1559 sparklec1570 inch1573 nibbling?1577 scantling1585 scrat1593 mincing1598 scantle1598 halfpenny1600 quantity1600 nip1606 kantch1608 bit1609 catch1613 scripa1617 snap1616 sippeta1625 crumblet1634 scute1635 scantleta1642 snattock1654 cantlet1700 tab1729 pallion1738 smallness1818 knobble1823 wisp1836 the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > action of dividing or divided condition > division by cutting > [noun] > into small pieces mincing1598 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Mincings, mammocks, shreds or small peeces. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §54 Mincing of meat, as in Pies,..saueth the Grinding of the Teeth. 1638 W. Rawley tr. F. Bacon Hist. Nat. & Exper. Life & Death 317 Gravies of Meat, and the Mincings of them small, well seasoned. a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 948/1 Wide Spade (Whaling), used to cut the blubber in the rough, before mincing. 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 797 Scarification consists in a mincing of the lupus tissue by the knife. 1961 People's Jrnl. 16 Sept. 3 Four thousand pounds of mincing is used every week for mince, sausages and sausage meat. 1981 Cook's Mag. Mar. 16/1 The galley also possessed a wide assortment of electrically driven machines which performed in a flash the more mundane chores of potato peeling, whisking, mincing and slicing. Compounds † mincing-horse n. North American Whaling Obsolete a wooden stand on which whale blubber is chopped. ΚΠ 1846 J. R. Browne Etchings Whaling Cruise 56 In connection with the mincing knife should be mentioned the ‘mincing horse’, which is simply a board about three feet long and ten inches wide. 1874 C. M. Scammon Marine Mammals N. Amer. 238 The blubber is transported in strap-tubs to the mincing-horse, where the ordinary two-handled knife is used. mincing knife n. a knife used in mincing meat, etc.; (North American Whaling) †one for cutting up blubber into small pieces (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > knife dressing knife1362 trencher-knife1392 bread knife1432 kitchen knife1433 dresser knifea1450 carving-knifea1475 sticking knife1495 chipper1508 chipping knife1526 butcher's knife1557 striking knife1578 mincing knife1586 cook's knife1599 oyster knife1637 randing knife1725 stick knife1819 chopping-knife1837 carver1839 butch knife1845 fish-carver1855 fruit-knife1855 rimmer1876 throating knife1879 steak knife1895 paring knife1908 society > occupation and work > industry > whaling and seal-hunting > whaling > cutting up whale or seal > [noun] > knife or hook blubber-spade1820 spade1820 strand knife1820 tail-knife1820 blubber-hook1835 whale-spade1852 mincing knifea1884 1586 in W. Greenwell Wills & Inventories Registry Durham (1860) II. 149 ij minsinge knives. 1634 in J. O. Halliwell Anc. Inventories (1854) 18 3 beefe forks, 2 mincinge knyves, 1 cleaver [etc.]. 1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick liv. 283 It was then that Steelkilt proposed to the two Canallers..to burst out of their hole..and armed with their keen mincing knives..run a muck from the bowsprit to the taffrail. 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Suet-chopper, a mincing knife for cutting up suet. a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 610/2 Mincing-knife (Whaling), for cutting the blubber into small pieces. 1992 C. Hardyment Home Comfort ix. 136 French chopping knives were specially strong; mincing knives had a firm wooden handle along the blade, to make chopping meat finely for mince easier . mincing machine n. a machine for mincing meat, etc.; spec. one for cutting up whale blubber. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > mincer manglerc1840 mincing machine1850 mincer1858 ricer1889 meat-grinder1934 1850 New Eng. Farmer 2 379 Sausage or Mincing Machine. a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 610/2 Mincing machine, a machine with knives on a roller, used in cutting blubber small for trying. 1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 31 Mar. 3/2 The Eastbourne board of guardians have ordered a mincing machine to be supplied for the use of aged and toothless paupers in their workhouse. 1956 G. Durrell Drunken Forest vii. 131 I had purchased in Ascunción a gigantic mincing machine. 1993 M. Hoffmann Corona, Corona 41 The shoe shops sold mincing machines, hats and aluminium buckets shared a shelf, paper and iron went together. † mincing spade n. Obsolete rare an implement used for cutting up whale blubber. ΚΠ a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 610/2 Mincing spade (Whaling), used in cutting up the blubber for trying out. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2022). mincingadj. Brit. /ˈmɪnsɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈmɪnsɪŋ/ Forms: see mince v. and -ing suffix²; also Scottish pre-1700 minsing. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mince v., -ing suffix². Etymology: < mince v. + -ing suffix². 1. a. Of speech, manner, behaviour, physical features, attributes, etc.: affectedly dainty, elegant, or mannered.In later (usually derogatory) use often associated with an effeminate or effete manner or behaviour in a man, esp. a homosexual man. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > [adjective] > affecting delicacy > characterized by affected delicacy mincing1530 minced?1542 minsicala1586 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 830/2 A mynsynge pace, le pas menu. 1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice iii. iv. 67 Ile..turne two minsing steps into a manly stride. View more context for this quotation 1635 T. Heywood Philocothonista 44 To title a drunkard by, wee..strive to character him in a more mincing and modest phrase; as thus:—Hee is a good fellow, or A boone Companion, A mad Greeke, A true Trojan. 1647 J. Howell New Vol. of Lett. 9 The fawning, and soft glances of a mincing smile. 1727 A. Pope et al. Περι Βαθους: Art of Sinking 67 in J. Swift et al. Misc.: Last Vol. The Finical [style]..consists of the most curious, affected, mincing Metaphors. 1737 Gentleman's Mag. Apr. 214/1 It were yet Mischief enough to have our whole Populace used to sip warm Water in a mincing effeminate Manner once or twice a Day. 1776 F. Burney Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1990) II. 212 Her voice low & delicate & mincing. a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Pimegenet, a very delicate and mincing diminutive of piemgenet for pomegranate. 1846 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) i. 6 Possibly her mincing gait encouraged the belief, and suggested that her clipping of a step of ordinary compass into two or three, originated in her habit of making the most of everything. 1861 ‘G. Eliot’ Silas Marner iii. 48 ‘Oho!’, said Dunsey..trying to speak in a small mincing treble. 1893 A. Griffiths Secrets Prison House II. iv. ii. 63 She walked with a mincing, self-satisfied air down the passage. 1903 J. H. Millar Lit. Hist. Scotl. 317 A mincing and quasi-genteel lingo of their own (the sort of English known in some quarters as ‘Princes Street’ or ‘Kelvinside’). 1959 M. Renault Charioteer (new ed.) xii. 289 The face could still be read, as it were, between the lines; faint traces were left in it of a mincing, petulant kind of good looks. 1972 S. Birmingham Late John Marquand xxiii. 217 Gene Tunney..for all the roughness of his trade as a prize fighter, had an elegant, almost mincing speaking style. 1998 Guardian (Electronic ed.) 14 Feb. He was a miniature, blond, beautiful, homosexual boy, with a high-pitched voice and a mincing walk, and obvious writing talent. b. Of a person, etc.: speaking, walking, or behaving, in an affectedly dainty or refined manner. In later usually derogatory use, of a man (esp. a homosexual man): effeminate, effete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > [adjective] > affecting delicacy minikin1545 mincing1560 miniard1584 finical1592 minic1598 nice-mouthed1618 finitive1640 finicking1661 minical1668 precious1712 précieuse1785 niminy-piminy1786 pershittie1808 miminy-piminy1815 finicky1825 nimpy-pimpy1825 niminy1878 too-tooa1884 piminy1890 précieux1891 piss-elegant1941 1560 T. Ingelend Disobedient Child D j b This myncing Trull. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. ii. sig. O5 Fitt mate for such a mincing mineon. 1637 J. Milton Comus 33 As Mercury did first devise With the mincing Dryades On the lawns. 1700 J. Dryden Fables Pref. sig. C^v Distinguish'd from each other, as much as the mincing Lady Prioress, and the broad-speaking gap-tooth'd Wife of Bathe. 1751 F. Coventry Hist. Pompey the Little* i. v. 50 My Lady's Maid..this delicate, mincing Comb-brusher. a1822 P. B. Shelley Peter Bell III iii, in Poet. Wks. (?1840) 240/1 There are mincing women, mewing..Of their own virtue. 1849 G. P. R. James Woodman I. vii. 143 I can be as delicate and mincing as a serving maid should need be. 1887 A. J. C. Hare Jrnl. 18 July in Story of my Life (1900) VI. xxiv. 94 [She] frightened a mincing curate out of his life. 1901 Scribner's Mag. Apr. 413/2 To stand there and see those mincing cobs go by, their pad-housings all a-glitter. 1926 E. von Arnim Introd. to Sally iv. 51 In the presence of her loveliness, what a mere mincing worm he was. 1988 R. Christiansen Romantic Affinities i. 6 Chénier is never chilly or formal, never the mincing beau one encounters so often in love poetry. 1993 R. Shilts Conduct Unbecoming v. xlix. 460 He anticipated furtive homosexuals, mincing men, transvestites and lesbians in male drag. 2. That minimizes, extenuates, or diminishes; palliative. ΘΚΠ society > morality > duty or obligation > moral or legal constraint > immunity or exemption from liability > excuse > [adjective] > extenuating mincing1581 mitigating1583 extenuating1607 favourable1693 palliating1710 palliative1748 extenuatory1807 extenuative1827 palliatory1845 mitigatory1868 1581 T. Howell His Deuises sig. I.iij My symple meaning plaine, not carued with mincing stile. 1599 J. Rainolds Overthrow Stage-playes 108 My speech was too minsing, when I named bawderie. If I had termed it most filthy beastly bawderie, my wordes had bene broder, though not brode enough yet. a1640 J. Ball Answer to Iohn Can (1642) i. 127 Your minsing figure of extenuation. 1778 S. Scott in J. Doran Lady of Last Cent. (1873) x. 242 I hate those mincing names, designed only to palliate wrong actions. 1827 W. Scott Jrnl. 10 Mar. (1941) 32 The mincing English edition in which he has hitherto been alone known. 1880 Appletons' Jrnl. Mar. 283 It is difficult to avoid feeling that this cautious, mincing, grudging criticism is peculiarly out of place when exercised upon one who was the most modest and least exacting of authors. 1993 R. Hughes Culture of Complaint i. 27 Touchiness about animals and fish has also given us such mincing euphemisms as ‘harvest’ for kill, presumably as in Fenimore Cooper's novel The Deerharvester. Compounds † mincing-pincing adj. Obsolete rare refined and clipped in sound. ΚΠ 1822 T. Moore in Mem. (1853) IV. 7 The mincing-pincing style of talking among the French women. Derivatives ˈmincingness n. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > [noun] > affected delicacy briding1566 mincedness1583 finicality1594 mignardise1603 mincing1623 finicalness1675 daintification1780 gingerliness1842 finicism1844 mincingness1853 preciosity1867 preciousness1884 1853 Househ. Words 24 Sept. 76/2 When your ladyship does condescend to speak English, it is only with a delightful mincingness of accent and a liberal use of superlatives. 1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt II. xix. 62 That frigid mincingness called dignity. 1904 E. von Arnim Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen 262 Her eyes were discreetly fixed on a Wiener Schnitzel that she was eating with a singular mincingness. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1533adj.1530
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