mitt
noun/mɪt/
Etymology Clipping of mitten.
1
A mitten
2
An oversized, protective glove such as an oven mitt or a baseball mitt.
3
Especially, In plural, Informal A hand.
- Hey, get your cotton-picking mitts off my sandwich!
- "Give us yer mitts, mate," said Alf. I held my hands out toward him.1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 134:
- Derived terms
- baseball mitt, big mitt man, catcher's mitt, garbage mitt, mitted, mittful, mittless, oven mitt, washing mitt
- Related terms
- glove