- mincemeat (n.)
[mincemeat 词源字典]
- 1660s, originally in the figurative sense of what someone plans to make of his enemy, an alteration of earlier minced meat (1570s); from mince (v.) + meat (n.). Mince-pie is attested from c. 1600; as rhyming slang for "eye" it is attested from 1857.[mincemeat etymology, mincemeat origin, 英语词源]