mince

Finely chopped meat; minced meat.

Mince tastes really good fried in a pan with some chopped onion and tomato.

Finely chopped mixed fruit used in Christmas pies; mincemeat.

During Christmas time my dad loves to eat mince pies.

An affected (often dainty or short and precise) gait.

A wiry little girl in a starched, lemon-colored party dress, she sassed along with a grownup mince, one hand on her hip, the other supporting a spinsterish umbrella.

She was just the same; she had a light way of walking and she always wore flat heels so she didn't have that mince like most girls.

An affected manner, especially of speaking; an affectation.

A very moderate degree of accomplishment in this direction would make an end of stage smart speech, which, like the got-up Oxford mince and drawl of a foolish curate, is the mark of a snob.

And, further, who has not heard what someone has christened the "Oxford" mince, where every consonant is mispronounced and every vowel gets a wrong value?

An eye (from mince pie).

Lancashire is a bit nazi about speed and the M6 in that area can be either clear or infested with vans and their helicopter. On the good side the vans tend to be on well sighted bridges so just keep the old minces peeled.

To make less; to make small.

To lessen; to diminish; to diminish in speaking; to speak of lightly or slightingly; to minimise.

To effect mincingly.

To cut into very small pieces; to chop finely.

Butchers often use machines to mince meat.

To suppress or weaken the force of.

Siren, now mince the sin, / And mollify damnation with a phrase.