Meanings
mitt1
plural mitts
- A mitten
- An oversized, protective glove such as an oven mitt or a baseball mitt.
- especiallyin pluralinformalA hand.
Hey, get your cotton-picking mitts off my sandwich!
1 more example
"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
Mitt2
- A surname
- rareA 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.
2022 January 20, Lauren Fox, Morgan Rimmer and Clare Foran, “Bipartisan group of senators seeks common ground on changing Electoral Count Act”, in CNN, archived from the original on 21 Apr 2022
Synonyms & antonyms
nounthe handwear used by fielders in playing baseball
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Clipping of mitten.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Dutch want
- wantoversized, protective glove
Finnish kinnas, patakinnas
- kinnasoversized, protective glove
- patakinnasoversized, protective glove
- räpyläoversized, protective glove
- räpylähand
- käpälähand
Italian guantone
- guantoneoversized, protective glove
Japanese ミット
- ミット (mitto)oversized, protective glove
Korean 미트
- 미트 (miteu)oversized, protective glove
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with mitt
Cite this entry
mitt. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mitt
“mitt.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mitt. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “mitt,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mitt.
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