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单词 mincemeat
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mincemeatn.

Brit. /ˈmɪnsmiːt/, U.S. /ˈmɪnsˌmit/
Forms: see mince v. and meat n.; also 1800s– mincement (irregular).
Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: minced meat n.
Etymology: Alteration of minced meat n. (compare mince v. Compounds 2). Compare earlier mince pie n.
1.
a. Meat cut up or ground into very small pieces. Cf. earlier minced meat n. 1a.
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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > cut or piece of meat > [noun] > minced meat
minced meat1578
mincemeat1630
collopa1665
mincea1850
α.
1630 Tincker of Turvey 23 If his wife puts but two fingers daintily into a dish of mince-meat, he sweares she makes hornes at him.
1662 J. A. Comenius Janua Linguarum Trilinguis xxxvi. 88/1 Of meat shread into small pieces he makes mince-meat, tid-bits, jiggets.
1726 J. Mordaunt Let. in E. Hamilton Mordaunts (1965) vii. 143 Her teeth much torment her, which forces her to mob up & wont suffer her to eat anything but Fish & mince meat.
1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery iv. 60 Then lay in your Dish a Layer of Mince-meat.
1789 J. Farley London Art Cookery (ed. 6) i. xi. 116 A Midcalf. Stuff a calf's heart..and send it to the oven... When you dish it up, pour the mincemeat in the bottom.
1820 C. Jeffreys Van Dieman's Land 70 Their meal consisted of the hind-quarters of a kangaroo cut into mince-meat, stewed in its own gravy.
1873 C. E. Beecher Miss Beecher's Housekeeper 37 Strain the soup, and save the meat for mince-meat or hash.
1920 Amer. Woman Aug. 19/4 (advt.) The Enterprise has four interchangeable knives which chop the food as fine or as coarse as needed... No. 3 cuts fine enough for mincemeat.
1994 B. Sterling Heavy Weather 64 Alex munched the mincemeat wedge of fried deer heart, deer liver, and dough while he slowly circled the truck.
β. 1903 Eng. Dial. Dict. IV. 307/1 A boiled nout-foot is a common accompaniment to the sheep's trotters and minch meat of the tripe-wife's stall.
b. The mixture of currants, raisins, sugar, suet, apples, almonds, candied peel, spices, etc., and originally meat chopped small, typically baked in pastry, as in mince pies and other traditional Christmas dishes. Cf. minced meat n. 1b.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > prepared fruit and dishes > [noun] > dried fruit preparations
traina1450
minced meat1762
mincemeat1824
mebos1862
1824 M. Randolph Virginia House-wife 142 Cover the moulds with paste, put in a sufficiency of mince-meat, cover the top with citron, sliced thin, and lay on it a lid.
1845 E. Acton Mod. Cookery xvi. 428 Mince Pies. Butter some tin pattypans well, and line them evenly with fine puff paste rolled thin; fill them with mincemeat [etc.].
1886 G. R. Sims Ring o' Bells iv. ii. 129 My wife makes her own mincemeat and her own plum-puddings.
1919 Maine My State 289 They filled half a dozen with mince-meat.
1955 F. G. Ashbrook Butchering xiv. 291 Originally mincemeat was a mixture of finely chopped or minced meat, suet, fresh and dried fruits, and nuts, citron, molasses, sugar, spices, and brandy and other spirituous liquor, or cider.
1991 D. Richler Kicking Tomorrow xvii. 309 He could already smell..the aroma of..hot stollen, panettone, and mincemeat tartlets with nutmeg, allspice, cinnamon, bourbon, and rum, crowned with sprigs of pine and holly.
2. figurative. Something reduced to small fragments; a jumble, or clumsy mixture of such fragments. Frequently in to make mincemeat of and similar phrases (colloquial): to cut in pieces; to destroy; to defeat decisively or easily in a fight, contest, or argument.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > death > killing > kill [verb (transitive)]
swevec725
quelmeOE
slayc893
quelleOE
of-falleOE
ofslayeOE
aquellc950
ayeteeOE
spillc950
beliveOE
to bring (also do) of (one's) life-dayOE
fordoa1000
forfarea1000
asweveOE
drepeOE
forleseOE
martyrOE
to do (also i-do, draw) of lifeOE
bringc1175
off-quellc1175
quenchc1175
forswelta1225
adeadc1225
to bring of daysc1225
to do to deathc1225
to draw (a person) to deathc1225
murder?c1225
aslayc1275
forferec1275
to lay to ground, to earth (Sc. at eird)c1275
martyrc1300
strangle1303
destroya1325
misdoa1325
killc1330
tailc1330
to take the life of (also fro)c1330
enda1340
to kill to (into, unto) death1362
brittena1375
deadc1374
to ding to deathc1380
mortifya1382
perisha1387
to dight to death1393
colea1400
fella1400
kill out (away, down, up)a1400
to slay up or downa1400
swelta1400
voida1400
deliverc1400
starvec1425
jugylc1440
morta1450
to bring to, on, or upon (one's) bierc1480
to put offc1485
to-slaya1500
to make away with1502
to put (a person or thing) to silencec1503
rida1513
to put downa1525
to hang out of the way1528
dispatch?1529
strikea1535
occidea1538
to firk to death, (out) of lifec1540
to fling to deathc1540
extinct1548
to make out of the way1551
to fet offa1556
to cut offc1565
to make away?1566
occise1575
spoil1578
senda1586
to put away1588
exanimate1593
unmortalize1593
speed1594
unlive1594
execute1597
dislive1598
extinguish1598
to lay along1599
to make hence1605
conclude1606
kill off1607
disanimate1609
feeze1609
to smite, stab in, under the fifth rib1611
to kill dead1615
transporta1616
spatch1616
to take off1619
mactate1623
to make meat of1632
to turn up1642
inanimate1647
pop1649
enecate1657
cadaverate1658
expedite1678
to make dog's meat of1679
to make mincemeat of1709
sluice1749
finisha1753
royna1770
still1778
do1780
deaden1807
deathifyc1810
to lay out1829
cool1833
to use up1833
puckeroo1840
to rub out1840
cadaverize1841
to put under the sod1847
suicide1852
outkill1860
to fix1875
to put under1879
corpse1884
stiffen1888
tip1891
to do away with1899
to take out1900
stretch1902
red-light1906
huff1919
to knock rotten1919
skittle1919
liquidate1924
clip1927
to set over1931
creasea1935
ice1941
lose1942
to put to sleep1942
zap1942
hit1955
to take down1967
wax1968
trash1973
ace1975
the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > have or gain mastery or superiority over [verb (transitive)] > overcome or defeat > soundly
threshc1384
to knock the socks offa1529
thump1597
thrash1609
thwacka1616
capot1649
to beat to snuff1819
to knock into a cocked hat1830
to —— (the) hell out of1833
sledgehammer1834
rout1835
whop1836
skin1838
whip-saw1842
to knock (the) spots off1850
to make mincemeat of1853
to mop (up) the floor with1875
to beat pointless1877
to lick into fits1879
to take apart1880
to knock out1883
wax1884
contund1885
to give (a person) fits1885
to wipe the floor with1887
flatten1892
to knock (someone) for six1902
slaughter1903
slather1910
to hit for six1937
hammer1948
whomp1952
bulldozer1954
zilch1957
shred1966
tank1973
slam-dunk1975
beast1977
α.
1649 Mercurius Pragmaticus (for King Charls II) No. 7. sig. G1v He must be Cloystered up in some Cave, or Dungeon provided for that purpose, till the saints please to make mince-meate of him by the approbation of the State-doctors, Fairfax, and Snout.
1663 A. Cowley Cutter of Coleman-St. ii. iv. 17 I'l hew thee into so many morsels, that [etc.]... Thou shalt be mince-meat, Worm, within this hour.
1693 T. Southerne Maids Last Prayer i. i. 4 For my part, I always make mince-meat of Any Fellow that offers but half so much to me.
1709 S. Centlivre Busie Body iii. iii. 32 If I shou'd find a Man in the House, I'd make Mince-Meat of him.
1742 A. Pope New Dunciad 220 (note) Stobæus,..an author who gave his Common-place-book to the public, where we happen to find much Mince-meat of old books.
1797 F. Reynolds Will iv. ii. 48 While He makes mince-meat of you, I shall have time to Run away.
1841 G. P. R. James Corse de Leon I. iv. 87 They think that we are hewed into mince-meat.
1853 Ld. Strangford in Croker Papers (1884) III. xxviii. 296 They blame you for letting Johnny Russell off so easily [in a review], when you might have made mincemeat of him.
1876 R. Browning Pacchiarotto & Other Poems 13 Confutation of vassal for prince meet—Wherein all the powers that convince meet, And mash my opponent to mincemeat!
1876 Coursing Cal. 193 Maniac made mincemeat of Smoker, who was so stiff that he could scarcely raise a gallop.
1902 L. Stephen Stud. of Biographer IV. ii. 76 Macaulay..makes mincemeat of Southey's..expositions of political economy.
1955 Times 20 June 13/4 Thames R.C. made mincemeat of all their opponents in the Grand Eights.
1984 Battle Picture Library 83 One occasion when smallness is on your side, and you make mince meat out of the big hefty boys!
1998 P. Jooste Dance with Poor Man's Daughter (1999) xii. 187 The devil has got hold of him..and if you looked at him sideways and he saw you he could change his mind in a second and then it won't be Matilda who's mincemeat but anyone who tries to stop him.
β. 1774 D. Graham Impartial Hist. Rebellion (ed. 3) v. 62 Which made him minch-meat for the grave.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

mincemeatv.

Brit. /ˈmɪnsmiːt/, U.S. /ˈmɪnsˌmit/
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: mincemeat n.
Etymology: < mincemeat n.
colloquial.
transitive. To cut to pieces, to turn into mincemeat; to kill, to pulverize. Also: to punish harshly or defeat decisively.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > cutting > cut [verb (transitive)] > cut to pieces
to-carvec950
forhewa1000
forcarveOE
to-hackc1000
to-hewc1000
to-slivec1050
to-brittenc1175
shredc1275
to-snedc1275
to-race1297
smitec1300
dismember1303
hewa1382
hew1382
to-cut1382
forcutc1386
brit?a1400
splatc1400
to-shredc1405
upshear1430
detrench1470
dispiece1477
thrusche1483
till-hew1487
despiecea1492
rip1530
share?1566
hash1591
shamble1601
becut1630
betrench1656
mincemeat1861
becarve1863
1861 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) 11 May 217 Thus within a week they have learned..that the Seventh Regiment were mince-meated at Washington.
1879 R. J. Atcherley Trip to Boërland 202 Concluding that I was about to be mincemeated by a Basuto impi.
1897 A. C. Gunter Susan Turnbull ii. 15 Bring him up here, or..I'll mincemeat you!
1982 J. Butterfield et al. What is Dungeons & Dragons? iv. 96 He wouldn't have mincemeated a fly, normally, but he ketchuped my arm.
1998 Washington Post (Nexis) 16 Sept. c9 How many pedestrians have almost been mincemeated by right-on-redders who don't stop—or even slow down?
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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