confounded vs mincing

confounded

adj
  • confused, astonished 

  • defeated, thwarted 

  • damned, accursed, bloody 

mincing

adj
  • Affectedly dainty. 

noun
  • The act by which something is minced. 

  • Affected dainty speech or movement. 

How often have the words confounded and mincing occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )