mitt
mitt Lexical Profile
mitt Game Scores & Validity
• noun
A protective glove without individual finger sections, often heavily insulated and used for safely handling hot items in a kitchen.
"She slipped on a silicone oven mitt before carefully pulling the roasting pan from the hot oven."
A large, heavily padded leather glove used in baseball, particularly by catchers and first basemen, designed with joined fingers to aid in catching the ball safely.
"The catcher crouched behind the plate and held up his mitt to signal for a fastball."
A person's hand, usually used in an informal or slightly derogatory context.
"Keep your grubby mitts off my freshly baked cookies!"
Word Nuance & Usage
While often used interchangeably with 'glove' in casual conversation, a 'mitt' specifically lacks individual finger sections (except sometimes for the thumb, as in an oven mitt or catcher's mitt).
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Word Origin & Etymology
First recorded in the mid-18th century as a shortened, clipped form of 'mitten', which originates from the Old French 'mitaine'.
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