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mincer|ˈmɪnsə(r)|
[f. mince v. + -er1.]
1. A person who minces or chops small.
1611Middleton & Dekker Roaring Girl ii. i. C 3 b, Green. Troth, this [tobacco] is finely shred. Lax. Oh women are the best mincers. 1850Scoresby Cheever's Whalem. Adv. v. (1859) 67 The mincer with a two-handed knife slashes it nearly through into thin slices.
b. A mincing-machine.
1885Pall Mall G. 31 Mar. 3/2 How many mincers are in use at workhouses which [etc.]. 1904Daily News 19 May 9 In the East-end..there is a large trade in converting horse flesh by means of the mincer. One thing is certain—these are not sold as horse flesh sausages.
†2. One who diminishes or disparages. Obs.
Tennyson's use (quot. 1847) is fig. of 1, but prob. echoes some example of the n. in this sense or of mince v. 4.
1619Purchas Microcosmus lxxiv. 737 She accounted his Fame a Mincer, and..a Halfe-reporter of his Prosperitie and Wisedome. [1847Tennyson Princess iv. 494 Mincers of each other's fame.]
3. One who minces words; one who speaks mincingly or in an affected manner.
1587Fleming Contn. Holinshed III. 1284/2 Nicholas Stanleie, whome Leland the minser and refiner of all English names dooth most curiouslie in Latine call Nicholaum Stenelegium. 1867A. J. Ellis E.E. Pronunc. i. iii. §4. 194 The mincer, so far from dropping the front of the tongue from the palate, raises the middle part and produces (lj) which degenerates into (i), as in Modern French. |