mincer

From mince +‎ -er.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmɪnsɚ/

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mincer (plural mincers)

1. A kitchen utensil used for mincing meat, etc.
2. Someone who minces.
3. (British, slang, derogatory) A homosexual male.

• (homosexual male): Tony Thorne (2014) “mincer”, in Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, 4th edition, London,  […]: Bloomsbury

• crimen

Inherited from Old French mincier, of disputed origin. Often purported to be from Vulgar Latin *minūtiāre, a verb based on Latin minūtus, though the phonetic development poses several problems. The proper outcome of Vulgar Latin *minūtiāre is rather the Old French menusier, menuiser (“to reduce to small pieces”), modern French menuiser. Old French mincier, however, more likely derives from Frankish *minnistō (“smaller, finer”) or Frankish *minnisōn (“to make small, make smaller”), thus relating it to Old English ġeminsian (“to reduce, make smaller, lessen”), whence English mince.

• IPA^(key): /mɛ̃.se/

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mincer

1. chop into fine pieces

This verb is part of a group of -er verbs for which 'c' is softened to a 'ç' before the vowels 'a' and 'o'.

• mince
• émincer

• menuiser

• “mincer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.