Finely chopped or ground meat, especially beef

• Minced meat used for cooking

Sweet spiced mixture of chopped dried fruit, often with suet

• Filling used in traditional mince pies

To cut food into very small pieces

• To chop finely

To soften or moderate one’s words

• To speak indirectly or with delicate restraint

To walk with short, quick, affected steps

• To move in a dainty, prim manner

An affected, dainty way of walking or speaking

• A prim or precious mannerism