mincing
名词 n.
动词 v.
形容词 adj.
英文释义
名词 n.
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The act by which something is minced.
— After three or four mincings with a coarse blade the product was passed two or three times through a fine blade.
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Affected dainty speech or movement.
— 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.
动词 v.
- present participle and gerund of mince
形容词 adj.
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Affectedly dainty.
— "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.
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