to walk with short steps, in an unpleasantly dainty or delicate way.

What does Mincingly mean?

Mincing is an adjective that describes someone who is being especially dainty or refined. ... Mincing is primarily used as an adjective meaning to be noticeably — and perhaps oddly or unnaturally — dainty or refined.

What does parsing words mean?

(Entry 1 of 2) transitive verb. 1a : to divide (a sentence) into grammatical parts and identify the parts and their relations to each other. b : to describe (a word) grammatically by stating the part of speech and explaining the inflection (see inflection sense 2a) and syntactical relationships.