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.
Origin
Mid 18th century: abbreviation of mitten.