"mincemeat" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-mincemeat.wav [Southern-England] Forms: mincemeats [plural]
Etymology: An alteration of earlier minced meat. Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} mincemeat (countable and uncountable, plural mincemeats)
  1. A mixture of fruit, spices and sugar used as a filling for mince pies. Tags: countable, uncountable Synonyms (mixture of fruit and spices): mince Translations (mixture of fruit, etc used as a filling): 百果餡 (Chinese Mandarin), 百果馅 (bǎiguǒxiàn) (Chinese Mandarin), 果餡 (Chinese Mandarin), 果馅 (guǒxiàn) (Chinese Mandarin), sekahedelmätäyte (Finnish), mions [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic), briwffrwyth [masculine] (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-mincemeat-en-noun-gFvqBqtu Disambiguation of 'mixture of fruit and spices': 88 8 2 2 Disambiguation of 'mixture of fruit, etc used as a filling': 93 4 1 2
  2. (rare) Minced meat, mince. Tags: countable, rare, uncountable Categories (topical): Foods Synonyms (minced meat): ground meat, mince Translations (minced meat): ἰσίκιον (isíkion) [neuter] (Ancient Greek), περίκομμα (períkomma) [neuter] (Ancient Greek), carne macinata [feminine] (Italian), minutal [neuter] (Latin), īsicium [neuter] (Latin), köttfärs [common-gender] (Swedish), briwgig [masculine] (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-mincemeat-en-noun-WXPATwV1 Disambiguation of Foods: 35 51 6 8 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 24 51 10 15 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 24 47 10 19 Disambiguation of 'minced meat': 13 77 4 6 Disambiguation of 'minced meat': 11 79 4 6
  3. (by analogy) A badly cut-up body or parts of a body. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-mincemeat-en-noun--DdYwa0Z
  4. (by extension) Something or someone utterly destroyed. Tags: broadly, countable, uncountable Translations (something or someone utterly destroyed): slarvsylta [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-mincemeat-en-noun-lIlWF5NQ Disambiguation of 'something or someone utterly destroyed': 4 8 2 87
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: make mincemeat out of, make mincemeat of, mincemeat pie, mincemeaty

Inflected forms

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