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▸ noun: (uncountable) Finely chopped mixed fruit used in Christmas pies; mincemeat.
▸ noun: (countable) An affected (often dainty or short and precise) gait.
▸ noun: (countable) An affected manner, especially of speaking; an affectation.
▸ noun: (countable, Cockney rhyming slang, chiefly in the plural) An eye (from mince pie).
▸ noun: (UK, slang, uncountable) Something worthless; rubbish.
▸ verb: (transitive) To make less; to make small.
▸ verb: (transitive) To lessen; to diminish; to diminish in speaking; to speak of lightly or slightingly; to minimise.
▸ verb: (transitive, rare) To effect mincingly.
▸ verb: (transitive, cooking) To cut into very small pieces; to chop finely.
▸ verb: (archaic, transitive, figuratively) To suppress or weaken the force of.
▸ verb: To say or utter vaguely (not directly or frankly).
▸ verb: (transitive) To affect; to pronounce affectedly or with an accent.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To walk with short steps; to walk in a prim, affected manner.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To act or talk with affected nicety; to affect delicacy in manner.
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