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  • noun Plural form of mincer.

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Examples

  • SONIC REDUCER Music journalism pet peeve no. 538: e-mail interviews that allow mealymouths and word mincers to dodge and defer from behind an iron wall of monosyllables.

    AltWeeklies.com Site Feed 2008

  • On stage are fantastical scenes: pigs being fed into mincers; Simon Russell Beale rustling about as a duchess; the white rabbit setting sail in a paper boat.

    Lauren Cuthbertson: 'There are no Black Swan moments in this ballet' 2011

  • My point is this: I had a friend a while ago who lived in Boston and she told me that in her street they had an arrangement whereby one person owned the ice cream maker and everyone else borrowed it, and so on with big cake tins and huge cooking pots and heavy duty mincers.

    Requesting Your Counsel Lindy 2006

  • The shooting of rice-birds has almost gone out, for the bird mincers are so careless.

    A Woman Rice Planter 1914

  • He laughed and said: "Miss, wait till de bird mincers shoot."

    A Woman Rice Planter 1914

  • In a few seconds the bird mincers became aware of my approach and up and fired very nearly at the same time.

    A Woman Rice Planter 1914

  • Advertisements, that wrought a revolution in that department of literature, my uncle was brought to realise not only the lost history, but also the enormous field for invention and enterprise that lurked among the little articles, the dustpans and mincers, the mousetraps and carpet-sweepers that fringe the shops of the oilman and domestic ironmonger.

    Tono Bungay 1906

  • Mr. King stood one side and watched the endless procession up and down, up and down, the strollers, the mincers, the languid, the nervous steppers; noted the eye-shots, the flashing or the languishing look that kills, and never can be called to account for the mischief it does; but not a sound did he hear of the repartee and the laughter.

    Their Pilgrimage Charles Dudley Warner 1864

  • Mr. King stood one side and watched the endless procession up and down, up and down, the strollers, the mincers, the languid, the nervous steppers; noted the eye-shots, the flashing or the languishing look that kills, and never can be called to account for the mischief it does; but not a sound did he hear of the repartee and the laughter.

    The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864

  • If u like comedy and art then ive got just the website for you check out my mates website www. comedyicons.com, you can follow him @ okse 5: 23 AM Mar 17th from web Its finished now, v disappointing i thought it would be full of mincers not mingers ...

    ShowHype - Top Entertainment News, Videos, and Blogs 2009

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