mincemeatとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

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

発音

• (General American) IPA: /ˈmɪnsˌmit/

名詞

mincemeat (countable and uncountable, plural mincemeats)

1. A mixture of fruit, spices and suet used as a filling for mince pies.
   • 2015 July 2, Michael Pearson, “6 things to know about hot dog king Joey Chestnut”, in CNN‎:

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

2. (rare) Minced meat, mince.
3. (by analogy) A badly cut-up body or parts of a body.
   • 2010, The Orbitology, The Book of Godom & Somorrah, →ISBN, page 29:

     Slicing up every man, woman, and child into mincemeat.

   • 2011, Fred Vargas, An Uncertain Place, →ISBN, page 46:

     This was another phenomenon for which there was no word: someone had reduced the body of another man to mincemeat.

   • 2011, Scott Kenemore, Zombie, Ohio: A Tale of the Undead, →ISBN, page 228:

     His chest and neck turned into mincemeat. The double chin had been blown away completely, revealing a skeletal jaw and chemically whitened teeth.

4. (by extension) Something or someone utterly destroyed.
   • 2002 March 20, Kazuki Takahashi, Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories (PlayStation video game, North American version), Konami:

     Weevil Underwood: My army of insects will make mincemeat out of you!

   • 2003, Theresa Deane, 500 Days of Front Line Combat: The WWII Memoir of Ralph B. Schaps, →ISBN:

     No one was to be spared in this frightful slaughter. The American 34th, 36th Texas, lst Armored, the British, the New Zealanders, the Indians, the Poles and the French, under the brilliant General Juin; all were to be ground to mincemeat by futile attacks against this fortress.

   • 2007 January 18, “Solicitor thought client was 'mincemeat'”, in The Age:

     "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'."

   • 2007, Bill Napier, Splintered Icon, →ISBN:

     For the common man in the sixteenth century, a calendar which paced not just the seasons but also the life of Christ would have to be divinely inspired. It would capture his heart and his mind. Pope Gregory's four hundred-year-one would become mincemeat.

   • 2012 December 24, Mark Heisler, “After Looking East to the Knicks, Nash Cut West to the Lakers”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 31 May 2015:

     Happily for the Lakers, who were mincemeat without him, Nash is back in the nick of time, with the Knicks, who walked all over them in New York two weeks ago, in town for a Christmas Day game.

同意語

• (mixture of fruit and spices): mince
• (minced meat): ground meat, mince

派生語

• make mincemeat out of, make mincemeat of
• mincemeat pie
• mincemeaty

参照

アナグラム

• emamectin