mitten

[mit-n]

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noun

a hand covering enclosing the four fingers together and the thumb separately.

mitt(def 4).

RELATED WORDS

mitt, muff, gauntlet, gage

Nearby words

Origin of mitten

1350–1400; Middle English miteyn < Middle French, Old French mitaine, equivalent to mite mitten (< ?) + -aine -an

Related formsmit·ten·like, adjective

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Examples from the Web for mitten

He rubbed his mitten over his woollen cap as if scratching his head.
Beasley's Christmas Party|Booth Tarkington
There was a red flash, and because he fired from the hip the trigger guard gashed his mitten.
Winston of the Prairie|Harold Bindloss
Jimmy for answer drew his right hand from its mitten, and clapping it over Bobby's nose began to rub the member vigorously.
Bobby of the Labrador|Dillon Wallace
He struck the fingers repeatedly and returned them to the mitten, baring the other hand for the purpose of eating.
Lost Face|Jack London

Then she knelt and touched at the coat of the child, a small frightened thing, with cap too large for him and one mitten lost.
Christmas|Zona Gale

British Dictionary definitions for mitten

mitten

noun

a glove having one section for the thumb and a single section for the other fingersSometimes shortened to: mitt

slang a boxing glove

Word Origin for mitten

C14: from Old French mitaine, of uncertain origin

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Word Origin and History for mitten

mitten

late 14c., from Old French mitaine "mitten, half-glove" (12c.), from Old French mite "mitten," and from Medieval Latin mitta, which are perhaps from Middle High German mittemo, Old High German mittamo "middle, midmost" (reflecting notion of "half-glove"), or from Vulgar Latin *medietana "divided in the middle," from Latin medius (see medial (adj.)).