MINCING
ADJECTIVES
► FALALDRAN affected, mincing → 1865 Eng. dial.
► MIMPING affected, mincing; dainty, fanciful about food → 1871 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► MIMPY affected, mincing; dainty, fanciful about food → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► NICKY-NACKY trifling, trivial, useless; troublesome; speaking in an affected or mincing manner → 1818 Sc.
NOUNS
► MINK-MIMP an affected or mincing manner of speaking → 1903 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
VERBS
► MICH to mince one’s words; to use mincing language → 1877 Eng. dial.
► MIMP to speak or act in an affected or mincing manner; to toy or play with one’s food in an affected manner → 1861 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► MINCE to walk or dance with short steps, in a mincing or affected manner → 1890 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► MINCH to walk mincingly → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► NANTLE to hold oneself erect; to go about in a mincing, conceited, affected fashion → 1841 Eng. dial.
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