Meaning of MINCING
| Pronunciation: | | 'minsing
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| | Definition: | | [adj] affectedly dainty or refined |
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| | Synonyms: | | dainty, niminy-piminy, prim, refined, twee |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Min"cing\, a.
That minces; characterized by primness or affected nicety.
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| Easton Bible Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | (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." |
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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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