mincing

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

mincing
    adj 1: affectedly dainty or refined [syn: {dainty}, {mincing},
           {niminy-piminy}, {prim}, {twee}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Mincing \Min"cing\, a.
   That minces; characterized by primness or affected nicety.
   [1913 Webster]

from Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary

Mincing
(Heb. taphoph, Isa. 3:16), taking affectedly short and quick
steps. Luther renders the word by "wag" or "waggle," thus
representing "the affected gait of coquettish females."

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

40 Moby Thesaurus words for "mincing":
      affected, dainty, dandyish, delicate, effeminate, elegant,
      euphemistic, euphuistic, exquisite, fastidious, finical, finicking,
      finicky, foppish, formalistic, fussy, goody good-good, goody-goody,
      la-di-da, namby-pamby, nice, overnice, overprecise, overrefined,
      particular, pedantic, pernickety, persnickety, precieuse, precious,
      precisian, precisianistic, precisionistic, pretentious, puristic,
      put-on, simpering, squeamish, stilted, too-too