mincing
/mˈɪnsɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.34 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- ""Is there nothing to eat in the house?" he asked, insolently, as if to a servant. In certain stages of his intoxication he affected the clipped, mincing speech of the towns. Mrs. Morel hated him most in this condition."
- "After three or four mincings with a coarse blade the product was passed two or three times through a fine blade."
- "My father, León Fuertes, was a fag three years; a roaring faggot; a lisping, smirking fruit; […] He put on all the trappings of inversion: the twittered mouthings, the hyper-feminine moues, the languid mincings."