Definitions for minces

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minces mince

Spelling: [mins]

IPA: /mɪns/

Minces is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 109 anagrams from letters in minces (ceimns).

Definitions for minces

noun

1. something cut up very small; mincemeat.

Idioms

1. not mince words / matters, to speak directly and frankly; be blunt or outspoken:

verb (used with object)

1. to cut or chop into very small pieces.
2. to soften, moderate, or weaken (one's words), especially for the sake of decorum or courtesy.
3. to perform or utter with affected elegance.
4. to subdivide minutely, as land or a topic for study.

verb (used without object)

1. to walk or move with short, affectedly dainty steps.
2. Archaic. to act or speak with affected elegance.

Origin of minces

1350-1400; Middle English mincen Middle French minc(i)er Vulgar Latin *minūtiāre to mince; see minute²

Examples for minces

Never one to mince her words, Leakes is as bawdy as they get on reality television.

But Marcouch does not mince his words: “The greatest insult of ISIS may even be toward the Muslims and Islam itself,” he tells us.

These mince pies may be eaten by persons who refrain from meat in Lent.

Musk was never one to mince words, but has recently unleashed aggressive broadsides on ULA.

Pare the pine-apple, slice it very thin, and mince it small.

Place the mince in greased scallop shells, and cover with the potatoes.

Put the mince into a quart of boiling milk, with a little butter and salt, cinnamon and sugar, and stir them carefully together.

Santa snacks on rice pudding in Denmark, sponge cake in Chile, Kulkuls in India, and mince pies in the U.K.

When half done, take them out, drain them, and mince them very fine.

Not to mince words,” he tells Gibney in the movie, “my view is I brought myself down… I did what I did, and shame on me.