Possible Clues:

• Step jauntily
• What you might do to meat or words
• Chop finally rotten consumed by rodents
• Rodents will eat last of rotten food
• Chop in a kitchen
• Cut very finely
• What the Dice Man produced perhaps with meat from the butchers
• Chop, as garlic
• Chop rotten at one end consumed by rodents
• Walk daintily through podium in celebration