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- noun Alternative form of
mince pie .
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Examples
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Before gunpowder, give me a suit of plate-and-mail, a stout helm, and a whomping big shield, and keep magic out of it, and I'll make mincepie out of unarmored or lightly armored opponents.
More Odds, More Ends grrm 2010
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Before gunpowder, give me a suit of plate-and-mail, a stout helm, and a whomping big shield, and keep magic out of it, and I'll make mincepie out of unarmored or lightly armored opponents.
More Odds, More Ends grrm 2010
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"I can't write seasonable verses," replied Our Festive Poet, "until I've had my Christmas dinner, and then _I'm mincepie-r'd_!"
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, November 21, 1891 Various
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Sophia was welcome to go; but by all the laws of God and man it would behove her lord and husband to eat his mincepie at home.
Orley Farm Anthony Trollope 1848
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It's as stuffed with juicy characters as currants in a mincepie - Little Dorrit, born in the Marshalsea Prison, where the debtors and credit crunch victims of the day, including Dickens 'own father, were banged up; Arthur Clennam, returned from years in China to a London both drearily familiar and alarmingly strange; Mrs Merdle glittering complacently at the top of the social tree with her parrot' watching her with his head on one side, as if he took her for another splendid parrot of a larger species '.
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