mincemeaty
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Resembling or characteristic of mincemeat.
adj
With mincemeat.
Example Sentences
- "A spicy mincemeaty fragrance appeared to cling to her big motherly apron; […]"
- "I selected the mincemeat, tart and crusty — not the best mincemeat pie I’ve ever eaten — but better than most and chockful of mincemeaty richness."
- "Grenville Strouther tackles a mincemeaty problem as he samples one of the mince pies baked by staff and senior citizens on the Eating Well on a Pension course at South Notts College."
- "Sarah, Penny and I went daily to St Anne’s School in Chelmsford, the school that Jean and Diana had attended at the same age and under the same head teacher, Miss Martin. I don’t remember much about it, except for the mincemeaty smell of school dinners, a boy called Giles who claimed that his father had lain down between the rails and let a train run over him, and the fact that the music master was called Mr Harp."
- "If you have always considered mincemeat tarts as dessert, here’s a big surprise. These hot mincemeat tarts are served with turkey, no less. They have been fixed specially as a relish to go with turkey. They are sprightly of flavor, completely mincemeaty, yet without the rich sweetness usually associated with mincemeat."
- "Steaming fresh-from-the-oven breads taste especially good on nippy, fall days. So when it’s cold outside, warm-up your insides with a piping-hot, quick bread treat — “mincemeaty,” walnut-crunchy muffins."
Etymology
From mincemeat + -y.