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mince
English
Alternative forms
- minse (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English mincen, minsen; partly from Old English minsian, ?eminsian (“to make less, make smaller, diminish”), from Proto-Germanic *minnis?n? (“to make less”); partly from Old French mincer, mincier (“to cut into small pieces”), from mince (“slender, slight, puny”), from Frankish *minsto, *minnisto, superlative of *min, *minn (“small, less”), from Proto-Germanic *minniz (“less”); both from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“small, little”). Cognate with Old Saxon mins?n (“to make less, make smaller”), Gothic ???????????????????????????? (minznan, “to become less, diminish”), Swedish minska (“to reduce, lessen”), Gothic ???????????????? (mins, “slender, slight”). More at min.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /m?ns/
- Rhymes: -?ns
- Homophone: mints
Noun
mince (countable and uncountable, plural minces)
- (uncountable) Finely chopped meat.
- Mince tastes really good fried in a pan with some chopped onion and tomato.
- (uncountable) Finely chopped mixed fruit used in Christmas pies; mincemeat.
- During Christmas time my dad loves to eat mince pies.
- (countable) An affected (often dainty or short and precise) gait.
- 2010, Tom Zoellner, Uranium: War, Energy, and the Rock That Shaped the World:
- His skin was china pale, he walked with a slight mince, and his silver mustache was always trimmed sharp; it was his custom to send a bouquet of pink carnations to the wives of men with whom he dined.
- 2010, Tom Zoellner, Uranium: War, Energy, and the Rock That Shaped the World:
- (countable) An affected manner, especially of speaking; an affectation.
- 1928, R. M. Pope, in The Education Outlook, volume 80, page 285:
- 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?
- 2008, Opie Read, The Colossus, page 95:
- [...] a smiling man, portly and impressive, coming toward them with a dignified mince in his walk.
- 1928, R. M. Pope, in The Education Outlook, volume 80, page 285:
- (countable, Cockney rhyming slang, chiefly in the plural) An eye (from mince pie).
Quotations
- 1849, Herman Melville, Mardi, and a Voyage Thither:
- Not, — let me hurry to say, — that I put hand in tar bucket with a squeamish air, or ascended the rigging with a Chesterfieldian mince.
Translations
Verb
mince (third-person singular simple present minces, present participle mincing, simple past and past participle minced)
- (transitive) To make less; make small.
- (transitive) To lessen; diminish; to diminish in speaking; speak of lightly or slightingly; minimise.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:diminish
- (transitive, rare) To effect mincingly.
- (transitive, cooking) To cut into very small pieces; to chop fine.
- (archaic, transitive, figuratively) To suppress or weaken the force of
- Synonyms: extenuate, palliate, weaken
- 1681, John Dryden, The Spanish Friar, or the Double Discovery
- Siren, now mince the sin, / And mollify damnation with a phrase.
- To say or utter vaguely, not directly or frankly
- (transitive) To affect; to pronounce affectedly or with an accent.
- 1869, Alexander J. Ellis, On Early English Pronunciation, with special reference to Shakespeare and Chaucer, part 1, page 194:
- In some districts of England ll is sounded like w, thus bowd (booud) for BOLD, bw (buu) for BULL, caw (kau) for CALL. But this pronunciation is merely a provincialism, and not to be imitated unless you wish to mince like these blunderers.
- 1905, George Henderson, The Gaelic Dialects, IV, in the Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie, published by Kuno Meyer and L. Chr. Stern, volume 5, page 98:
- One may hear some speakers in Oxford mince brother into brover (brëvë); Bath into Baf; both into bof.
- 1869, Alexander J. Ellis, On Early English Pronunciation, with special reference to Shakespeare and Chaucer, part 1, page 194:
- (intransitive) To walk with short steps; to walk in a prim, affected manner.
- At the last moment Mollie, the foolish, pretty white mare who drew Mr. Jones's trap, came mincing daintily in, chewing at a lump of sugar.
- 1769, King James Bible, Isaiah 3:16
- The daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, mincing as they go.
- (intransitive) To act or talk with affected nicety; to affect delicacy in manner.
Usage notes
Current usage in the sense of “say or utter vaguely” is mostly limited to the phrase “mince words”; e.g., “I won't mince words with you”.
Derived terms
Translations
References
- mince in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Czech
Etymology
Borrowed from German Münze.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?m?nt?s?/
- Rhymes: -?nts?
Noun
mince f
- coin
- Synonyms: peníz, moneta
- Hyponyms: m??ák, st?íbr?ák, zla?ák
Declension
Related terms
Further reading
- mince in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
- mince in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
French
Etymology
Derived from the verb mincer, from Old French mincier, from Vulgar Latin *min?ti?re (cf. also menuiser), from Latin min?tia.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /m??s/
Adjective
mince (plural minces)
- thin, slim, slender
Derived terms
- amincir
- minceur
- mincir
Interjection
mince
- drat!, darn!
- wow!, blimey!
Further reading
- “mince” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Irish
Noun
mince f
- genitive singular of minc (“mink”)
Mutation
Slovak
Noun
mince
- inflection of minca:
- genitive singular
- nominative/accusative plural
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sunder
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?s?nd?/
- Rhymes: -?nd?(?)
Etymology 1
From Middle English sunder, from Old English sundor- (“separate, different”), from Proto-Germanic *sundraz (“isolated, particular, alone”), from Proto-Indo-European *snter-, *seni-, *senu-, *san- (“apart, without, for oneself”). Cognate with Old Saxon sundar (“particular, special”), Dutch zonder (“without”), German sonder (“special, set apart”), Old Norse sundr (“separate”), Danish sønder (“apart, asunder”), Latin sine (“without”).
Adjective
sunder (comparative more sunder, superlative most sunder)
- (dialectal or obsolete) Sundry; separate; different.
Derived terms
- sunderling
- sunderly
Etymology 2
From Middle English sundren (“to separate, part, divide”), from Old English sundrian (“to separate, split, part, divide”), from Proto-Germanic *sundr?n? (“to separate”), from Proto-Indo-European *sen(e)- (“separate, without”). Cognate with Scots sinder, sunder (“to separate, divide, split up”), Dutch zonderen (“to isolate”), German sondern (“to separate”), Swedish söndra (“to divide”). More at sundry.
Verb
sunder (third-person singular simple present sunders, present participle sundering, simple past and past participle sundered)
- (transitive) To break or separate or to break apart, especially with force.
- (intransitive) To part, separate.
- 1881 Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Severed Selves, lines 8-9
- Two souls, the shores wave-mocked of sundering seas: —
- Such are we now.
- 1881 Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Severed Selves, lines 8-9
- (Britain, dialect, dated, transitive) To expose to the sun and wind.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)
Derived terms
Related terms
- sundry
Translations
Noun
sunder (plural sunders)
- a separation into parts; a division or severance
- 1939, Alfred Edward Housman, Additional Poems, VII, lines 2-4
- He would not stay for me to stand and gaze.
- I shook his hand and tore my heart in sunder
- And went with half my life about my ways.
- 1939, Alfred Edward Housman, Additional Poems, VII, lines 2-4
Derived terms
- sundrous
See also
- sunder tree
Anagrams
- Durens, Dusner, drusen, nursed
Old English
Alternative forms
- sundor
- synder
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *sundraz, whence also Old High German suntar, Old Norse sundr.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?sun.der/
Adverb
sunder
- apart, separate, private, aloof, by one's self
Synonyms
- ?ed?ledl??e
Derived terms
- onsundrum (“singly, separately, apart: privately: especially, in sunder”)
- sunderanweald m (“monarchy”)
- sunderfolgoþ m (“private office”)
- sunderfr?od?m, sunderfr?ols m (“privilege”)
- sunderl?pes (“separately”)
- sunderm?lum (“separately, singly”)
- sunderm?d f (“private meadow”)
- sunderst?w f (“special place”)
Related terms
- ?sundran, ?sundrian (“to divide, separate, disjoin, sever; distinguish, except. asunder”)
- ?syndrung f (“division”)
- sundrian (“to separate, sunder”)
See also
- sundor
- synder
References
- John R. Clark Hall (1916) , “sunder”, in A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, New York: Macmillan.
- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) , “sundor”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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