mitt

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mitt¹

  • /mɪt/

Rhymes with -ɪt

Where it comes from

Clipping of mitten.

noun mitts

  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!

Mitt²

proper noun

  1. A surname
  2. rare A male given name. Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Mitt Romney of Utah both confirmed that a bipartisan group of lawmakers will have a series of video meetings starting in the next several days to see if they could agree on a deal soon.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: glove, hook, mauler, hand, paw, manus, baseball mitt, baseball glove, gauntlet, ball, catcher, oven, meat, mate, dead, ballplayer

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noun oversized, protective glove

한국어미트 miteu
日本語ミット mitto
Italianoguantone

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"mitt." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/mitt. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

APA

mitt. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/mitt

Chicago

"mitt." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/mitt.

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@misc{mitt_2026,
  title = {mitt},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/mitt},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}