1. mince - Noun
2. mince - Verb
To cut into very small pieces; to chop fine; to hash; as, to mince meat.
To suppress or weaken the force of; to extenuate; to palliate; to tell by degrees, instead of directly and frankly; to clip, as words or expressions; to utter half and keep back half of.
To affect; to make a parade of.
To walk with short steps; to walk in a prim, affected manner.
To act or talk with affected nicety; to affect delicacy in manner.
A short, precise step; an affected manner.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done. Edward Young
I am known to be able to take care of myself when I become angry. I don't mince words. Ethel Merman
When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words. Friedrich Dürrenmatt
I was so free with him as not to mince the matter. Miguel de Cervantes
The writing was impeccably neat and legible though rather crabbed into the centre of the page; I saw a neat crabbed man behind it. Presumably some sort of retreat, one of those desiccated young Catholics that used to mince around Oxford when I was an undergraduate. John Fowles
The future, wave or no wave, seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done. E. B. White