Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who minces.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who minces.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A kitchen utensil used for mincing meat, etc.
  • noun Someone who minces.
  • noun UK, slang, derogatory a homosexual.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a kitchen utensil that cuts or chops food (especially meat) into small pieces

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Examples

  • Look at the sailor, called the mincer, who now comes along, and assisted by two allies, heavily backs the grandissimus, as the mariners call it, and with bowed shoulders, staggers off with it as if he were a grenadier carrying a dead comrade from the field.

    Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

  • Look at the sailor, called the mincer, who now comes along, and assisted by two allies, heavily backs the grandissimus, as the mariners call it, and with bowed shoulders, staggers off with it as if he were a grenadier carrying a dead comrade from the field.

    Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855

  • Look at the sailor, called the mincer, who now comes along, and assisted by two allies, heavily backs the grandissimus, as the mariners call it, and with bowed shoulders, staggers off with it as if he were a grenadier carrying a dead comrade from the field.

    Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855

  • Look at the sailor, called the mincer, who now comes along, and assisted by two allies, heavily backs the grandissimus, as the mariners call it, and with bowed shoulders, staggers off with it as if he were a grenadier carrying a dead comrade from the field. extending it upon the forecastle deck, he now proceeds cylindrically to remove its dark pelt, as an African hunter the pelt of a boa.

    Moby-Dick, or, The Whale 1851

  • Once the figures were fed into the ONS mincer, construction made up almost a third of growth in gross domestic product (GDP).

    Construction gives UK economic recovery an unstable foundation Phillip Inman 2010

  • No one wanted to step up to the plate as a mincer.

    Rewind TV: The Apprentice; The Song of Lunch; The Genius of British Art Phil Hogan 2010

  • Ask your butcher to mince the meat through a clean mincer or, better still, do it yourself if you have a mincer attachment for your mixing machine.

    The Ivy: Steeped in Celebrity Jemima Sissons 2010

  • Ask your butcher to mince the meat through a clean mincer or, better still, do it yourself if you have a mincer attachment for your mixing machine.

    Recipes From the Ivy 2010

  • After the intensely satisfying task of grinding the topside through the mammoth mincer, taking care not to handle it too much to destroy its shape, I add Tabasco, chopped gherkin and Worcester sauce.

    The Ivy: Steeped in Celebrity Jemima Sissons 2010

  • As if the sight of The Exterminator dropping a baddie into a meat mincer wasn't enough, our second choice was Lucio Fulci's zombie classic The Beyond.

    Scary and fun: Ghost Stories creators on 'Scun' Andy Nyman 2010

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