mincing

4 definitions found

mincing - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

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

mincing - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  mincing
      adj 1: affectedly dainty or refined [syn: dainty, mincing,
             niminy-piminy, prim, twee]

mincing - Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary :

  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."

mincing - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  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