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Found 4 hits - Term: mincing, Database: *, Strategy: exact
[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
mincing \min"cing\, a.
   that minces; characterized by primness or affected nicety.
   1913 webster

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
mincing
     adj : affectedly dainty or refined syn: dainty, niminy-piminy,
            prim, twee
see also:
dainty niminy-piminy prim twee 
[3] : 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




[4] : 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."
   


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