(uncountable) Finely chopped meat; minced meat.

(uncountable) Finely chopped mixed fruit used in Christmas pies; mincemeat.

(countable) An affected (often dainty or short and precise) gait.

(countable) An affected manner, especially of speaking; an affectation.

(countable, Cockney rhyming slang, chiefly in the plural) An eye (from mince pie).

(transitive) To make less; to make small.

(transitive) To lessen; to diminish; to diminish in speaking; to speak of lightly or slightingly; to minimise.

(transitive, rare) To effect mincingly.

(transitive, cooking) To cut into very small pieces; to chop finely.

To say or utter vaguely (not directly or frankly).

(transitive) To affect; to pronounce affectedly or with an accent.

(intransitive) To walk with short steps; to walk in a prim, affected manner.

(intransitive) To act or talk with affected nicety; to affect delicacy in manner.