mincing

Etymology

verb

1. present participle and gerund of mince

adj

1. Affectedly dainty.

noun

1. The act by which something is minced.
   After three or four mincings with a coarse blade the product was passed two or three times through a fine blade. 1931, The Journal of Biological Chemistry, volume 90, page 689
2. Affected dainty speech or movement.
   My father, León Fuertes, was a fag three years; a roaring faggot; a lisping, smirking fruit; […] He put on all the trappings of inversion: the twittered mouthings, the hyper-feminine moues, the languid mincings. 1975, R. M. Koster, The Dissertation, page 118