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mitt /mɪt /noun (usually mitts) 1A mitten: woolly mitts...- And chintz tea towels and oven mitts that are anything but chintzy.
- A few seconds later, Sam arrived at the door, face red and hot and clad in an apron and oven mitts.
- Dressed in an apron with oven mitts to match, she noticed him and smiled.
1.1A glove leaving the fingers and thumb-tip exposed.There are definite tricks to tasks such as fitting a mask, manipulating camera controls, tightening straps and all the other things divers need to do without thinking about it while wearing dry gloves or mitts....- The temperatures of around 20F can be a problem for some pilots who have only gloves and no mitts.
1.2 (also baseball mitt) Baseball A large fingerless glove worn by the catcher or first baseman.For the love of a glove: a baseball mitt just isn't a necessary piece of equipment, it's a part of life for many players...- You just don't see 10-year-old kids throwing around a rugby ball or kicking a soccer ball in the States; they've either got a baseball mitt on their hand or are throwing around a basketball or football.
- I wanted a baseball mitt so bad a sweet hurt blossomed in my stomach whenever I thought about it…
1.3 informal A person’s hand: it’s essential to get your mitts on a pair of low-slung combat trousers...- This big grumbly rumbly bear of a man with shoulders wider than most airline seats and mitts so big that my kitty Abby could probably sit comfortably in his palm likes my silly pet name for him.
- They're trying to get their grubby mitts on our big cars and mansions in Pondok Indah and Bintaro.
- Tickets for the 200-capacity date next month may have been snapped up within hours of going on sale but we have managed to get our mitts on a pair of the coveted items.
OriginMid 18th century: abbreviation of mitten. Rhymesacquit, admit, backlit, bedsit, befit, bit, Brit, Britt, chit, commit, demit, dit, emit, fit, flit, frit, git, grit, hit, intermit, it, kit, knit, legit, lickety-split, lit, manumit, mishit, nit, omit, outsit, outwit, permit, pit, Pitt, pretermit, quit, remit, retrofit, sit, skit, slit, snit, spit, split, sprit, squit, submit, transmit, twit, whit, wit, writ, zit |