Mincing

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Mincing \Min"cing\, a.
     That minces; characterized by primness or affected nicety.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  mincing
       adj : affectedly dainty or refined [syn: {dainty}, {niminy-piminy},
              {prim}, {twee}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  40 Moby Thesaurus words for "mincing":
     affected, dainty, dandyish, delicate, effeminate, elegant,
     euphemistic, euphuistic, exquisite, fastidious, finical, finicking,
     finicky, foppish, formalistic, fussy, goody good-good, goody-goody,
     la-di-da, namby-pamby, nice, overnice, overprecise, overrefined,
     particular, pedantic, pernickety, persnickety, precieuse, precious,
     precisian, precisianistic, precisionistic, pretentious, puristic,
     put-on, simpering, squeamish, stilted, too-too
  
  

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Mincing
     (Heb. taphoph, Isa. 3:16), taking affectedly short and quick
     steps. Luther renders the word by "wag" or "waggle," thus
     representing "the affected gait of coquettish females."