mincemeat
pronunciation
How to pronounce mincemeat in British English:
UK [ˈmɪnsmi:t]
How to pronounce mincemeat in American English:
US [ˈmɪnsˌmit]
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- Noun:
- spiced mixture of chopped raisins and apples and other ingredients with or without meat
Word Origin
- mincemeat (n.)
- 1660s, originally in the figurative sense of what someone plans to make of his enemy, an alteration of earlier minced meat (1570s); from mince (v.) + meat (n.). Mince-pie is attested from c. 1600; as rhyming slang for "eye" it is attested from 1857.
Example
- 1. The first samples are likely to be like mincemeat in texture while producing steaks could take at least five years longer .
- 2. Otherwise the republicans , who will control the house and possibly the senate too , will make mincemeat of him .
- 3. Ms. barnes runs the corner shop , a little union-jack-patterned outlet that sells classically british items , from marmalade to mincemeat .