Search Result for "mincing":
Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1. affectedly dainty or refined;
[syn: dainty, mincing, niminy-piminy, prim, twee]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Mincing \Min"cing\, a. That minces; characterized by primness or affected nicety. [1913 Webster]Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary:
Mincing (Heb. taphoph, Isa. 3:16), taking affectedly short and quick steps. Luther renders the word by "wag" or "waggle," thus representing "the affected gait of coquettish females."Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
40 Moby Thesaurus words for "mincing": affected, dainty, dandyish, delicate, effeminate, elegant, euphemistic, euphuistic, exquisite, fastidious, finical, finicking, finicky, foppish, formalistic, fussy, goody good-good, goody-goody, la-di-da, namby-pamby, nice, overnice, overprecise, overrefined, particular, pedantic, pernickety, persnickety, precieuse, precious, precisian, precisianistic, precisionistic, pretentious, puristic, put-on, simpering, squeamish, stilted, too-too
