Definitions for mincemeat

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mincemeat mince·meat

Spelling: [mins-meet]

IPA: /ˈmɪnsˌmit/

Mincemeat is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 307 anagrams from letters in mincemeat (aceeimmnt).

Definitions for mincemeat

noun

1. a mixture composed of minced apples, suet, and sometimes meat, together with raisins, currants, candied citron, etc., for filling a pie.
2. anything cut up very small, especially meat.

Idioms

1. make mincemeat of, to destroy utterly:

Origin of mincemeat

First recorded in 1655-65; mince + meat

Examples for mincemeat

Come, I see that your excellency wishes me to be cut into mincemeat!

It was slaughtered, roasted, made into mincemeat and devoured.

As for the girl who had jilted him, I thought I could have made her into mincemeat.

When at length the mincemeat was finished we were all out of work.

Also, there was a great deal of mincemeat, and it did not compare with Katy's.

Such delicious odors of popcorn and boiling candy, of cake and mincemeat in the making floated up from the kitchen!

But Little White Fox was a very small chap, and didn't give much thought to mincemeat.

Wet the edges of the pastry, and put some mincemeat into the middle of each round.

It is not true that mincemeat will keep all winter, even by this preservative.

This makes it unnecessary to use liquor for keeping the mincemeat.