mincing

sievistelevä (present participle of)
Affectedly dainty.
1913, w:D. H. Lawrence|D.H. Lawrence, s:Sons_and_Lovers Sons and Lovers, s:Sons and Lovers/Chapter II|chapter 2

"Is there nothing to eat in the house?" he asked, insolently, as if to a servant. In certain stages of his intoxication he affected the clipped, mincing speech of the towns. Mrs. Morel hated him most in this condition.

After three or four mincings with a coarse blade the product was passed two or three times through a fine blade.