Mincing

The verb "mincing" appears once in scripture, in Isaiah's indictment of the proud women of Jerusalem.

The Gait of Zion's Daughters

Yahweh's complaint focuses on a manner of carriage that broadcasts arrogance — the head held high, the eye seductive, the step affected, ankle-bells jingling with each tread: "Moreover Yahweh said, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with outstretched necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet" (Isa 3:16). The mincing step is one element in a fuller picture of haughty self-display, and it sets up the reversal that follows in the rest of the chapter, when finery and ornament will be stripped away.