mitten

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  1. noun A covering for the hand that encases the thumb separately and the four fingers together.

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  • Sorry I squeezed her mitten, a totally inadequate gesture, but all that time and prudence permitted. —  Analog, July/August 2003
  • Using it as a mitten, I collected the shreds of flesh and remnants of cloth. —  EQMM,August2006
  • I forgot to photograph the back of the mitten, the chevron pattern. —  Knitting the Blues
  • Way up near the northern tip of the mitten, they've figured out how to stretch their growing season with plastic. —  Marketplace
  • To top things off, Madonna returns to the mitten-state for a showing of —  StraightUpSearch
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  1. Middle English, from Old French mitaine (from mite, cat's caress, mitten, from mit, cat) and from Medieval Latin mitta, mitten (possibly from Old French mite).

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  1. Early modern English also mittain; from Middle English mitaine, mytane, myteine, myten, myteyne, from Old French (and F.) mitaine (Middle Latin mitana, mitanna), also mitan, miton (= Spanish miton); cf. Middle Latin mita, mitten: derived by some, in the supposed orig. sense of ‘half-glove,’ from Old High German mittamo, Middle High German mittemo, middle, midmost (superlative of mitte, middle: see mid); by others referred to a Celtic source: cf. Gaelic Irish mutan, a thick glove, a muff, Gaelic miotag, miotog, a mitten, Irish mutog, a stump, a hand or glove without fingers.
  2. from mitten, n.
 

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