单词 | minced |
释义 | mincedadj. 1. a. Of meat, etc.: cut up or ground into very small pieces. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > action of dividing or divided condition > division by cutting > [adjective] > cut into pieces > cut into small pieces minced1381 minute?1440 1381 Diuersa Servicia in C. B. Hieatt & S. Butler Curye on Inglysch (1985) 71 Cast þereto gode myncyd onyns. a1450 in T. Austin Two 15th-cent. Cookery-bks. (1888) 15 Also mencyd Dates, Clowes, Maces [etc.]. ?a1450 in T. Austin Two 15th-cent. Cookery-bks. (1888) 110 Take vynegre and poudre gingere, salt, and cast a-pon þe mynced shulder [of mutton]. a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sloane) (1862) 17 (MED) Frye smalle mynsud onyone In oyle. ?a1584 Tom Thumbe 100 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. (1866) II. 181 His mother..Into a pudding thrust her sonne instead of minced fat. 1647 R. Baron Εροτοπαιγνιον sig. Ev Madam nature seemed to run mad, as she did when Cæsar dyed, and small peces of minced flesh discended in the manner of a showre. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) at Andouillet Minced Veal with Bacon and other Ingredients roll'd into a Paste: Andouillets for Fish-days are also made of Eels and Carp's-flesh, chopt small or pounded in a Mortar. 1797 London Compl. Art Cookery 142 Make ready a liason of two or three eggs and cream, with a little minced parsley and nutmeg. 1823 C. Lamb Grace before Meat in Elia 216 One who professes to like minced veal. 1845 E. Acton Mod. Cookery xix. 489 Seasoned with minced herbs..[it] is then called an ‘Omlette aux fines herbes’. 1861 I. M. Beeton Bk. Househ. Managem. xxi. 469 Minced Fowl—an Entree (Cold Meat Cookery). 1935 Nature 23 Feb. 305/2 The respiration of the minced breast muscle of the pigeon has been studied by means of specific poisons. 1984 A. C. Duxbury & A. Duxbury Introd. World's Oceans xiv. 459 The United States consumer prefers fish fillets and fish steaks, not low-cost minced fish products. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > action of dividing or divided condition > [adjective] > divided > divided into small parts yscreddec1430 shredded1577 minced1581 shred1665 morselled1799 comminuted1860 1581 R. Mulcaster Positions viii. 54 Writers make to many, and to finely minced distinctions. 1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida i. ii. 252 Pan. Is not birth, beauty,..and such like, the spice & salt that season a man. Cres. I a minst [1623 minc'd] man, and then to bee bak't with no date in the pie, for then the mans date is out. 1825 J. H. Reynolds in T. Hood & J. H. Reynolds Odes & Addr. 118 Why should Cambridge put its little, smart, Minc'd brains into a Tart? 2. Uttered or performed in a mincing or affected manner. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > [adjective] > affecting delicacy > characterized by affected delicacy mincing1530 minced?1542 minsicala1586 the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > [adjective] > affected or mincing > of speech minced?1542 haw-haw1841 plummy1881 cultivated1908 pan-loafy1946 pan-loaf1947 ?1542 H. Brinkelow Complaynt Roderyck Mors i. sig. A6 The mombled and mynsed masse (wherby neither god is glorifyed, nor the hearers edifyed). c1560 T. Becon Relikes of Rome sig. E.iii The mynsed Musicke, that nowe beareth chiefe rule in churches. 1658 R. Brathwait Honest Ghost 325 Your Language, though not curiously refin'd, It can expresse the dictates of your mind; And with more brevity and aptnesse too Then These with their minc'd Dialect can doe. a1750 A. Hill Epil., Massacre of Paris in Wks. (1753) IV. 4 Light pumps, and short, minc'd steps, half bode retreating. 1873 Fraser's Mag. Oct. 437 The hybrid minced English known as chee-chee. 2000 Daily Oklahoman (Nexis) 19 Sept. Big 12 football stinks. No minced words. Let's say it straight. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > curtailed abridgeda1382 docked1408 defalcate1531 decurted?1550 curtailed1561 limited1590 minced1609 clipped1788 razeed1821 shorn1853 restricted1856 curtate1875 fine-cut1894 1609 J. Rawlinson Fishermen 34 A minced and curtall mainteinance. 1695 J. Sage Fund. Charter Presbytery (1697) 216 Giving us only a Minced account of this Petition. 1707 Vulpone 15 [Of the Scottish Representation at the Union.] To agree to such a minced Representative, and give away the Birth-rights of their Lords, Barons and Boroughs. Compounds minced collops n. Scottish minced meat; a dish made from this (cf. collop n.1 2c). ΚΠ 1746 Lyon in Mourning (1895) III. 41 There were some minch'd collops dress'd with butter for him in a large sawce pan. 1853 H. Stephens Farmer's Guide II. 692 The hook-bone, and..the buttock, are cut up for steaks, beef-steak pie, or minced collops. 1929 F. M. McNeill Scots Kitchen 135 Minced Collops (an everyday Scottish dish). 1996 Scotl. on Sunday (Nexis) 8 Dec. (Spectrum section) 5 Thanks to the crystal clear instructions children will shortly no doubt be..astonishing their families with potted hough, Forfar bridies and minced collops. minced oath n. a clipped or euphemistically altered oath. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > malediction > oaths > [noun] > euphemisms for stronger oaths minced oath?1654 blank1854 adjective1888 bee1926 muck1952 F-word1956 C-word1979 N-word1985 XXXX1985 F-bomb1987 ?1654 in Trans. Banffshire Field Club (1908–9) 96 The elders of Dunbennand..[ought to] abstain from minched oaths. 1861 E. B. Ramsay Reminisc. Sc. Life 2nd Ser. i. 10 I debar all those who use such minced oaths as..losh! gosh! and lovanenty! 1937 E. Partridge Dict. Slang 5/2 'Ads, God's: a coll[oquial] minced oath. 2000 Seattle Times (Nexis) 12 Aug. d1 Family Movie Reviews Online noted the use of ‘idiot’, ‘shut up’ and four ‘minced oaths’, as well as one mild obscenity. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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