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mincemeat

noun
/ˈmɪnsˌmit/US

Etymology

An alteration of earlier minced meat; equivalent to mince + meat.

  1. derived from *meh₂d-✻ — “to drip, ooze; grease, fat”
  2. inherited from *matiz✻ — “food”
  3. inherited from *mati✻
  4. inherited from mete
  5. inherited from mete
  6. compounded as mincemeat — “mince + meat”

Definitions

  1. A mixture of fruit, spices and suet used as a filling for mince pies.

    • And not to rub salt in wounds, when it comes to making mincemeat of the competition, American Joey Chestnut is still top banana.

  2. Minced meat, mince.

  3. A badly cut-up body or parts of a body.

    • Slicing up every man, woman, and child into mincemeat.
    • This was another phenomenon for which there was no word: someone had reduced the body of another man to mincemeat.
    • His chest and neck turned into mincemeat. The double chin had been blown away completely, revealing a skeletal jaw and chemically whitened teeth.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. Something or someone utterly destroyed.

      • Weevil Underwood: My army of insects will make mincemeat out of you!
      • "He said his client had been receiving death threats and he was quite paranoid. "His exact words were: 'I think he's mincemeat by now'."

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA