Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The small stormy petrel, Procellaria pelagica. Montagu.
Wiktionary
- n. UK, dialect The stormy petrel.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Prov. Eng. The stormy petrel.
Examples
“November 15th, 2009 11: 41 am ET mitty is a pompous empty headed tired old repug. he's as smart as sarah palin. both have the intelligences of a tree stump. who cares what he says. whatever President Obama does is never good enough or right in their eyes. as usual they don't have any solutions of their own. where were all these know-it-alls when bush/cheney started the wars and put this country in the mess we are in now. they just seem to not want to talk about the 8 horrible years of bush/cheney rule.”
“I feel so much safer now that I know a bunch of middle-aged walter mitty types pack heat.”
“Chase sounds almost exactly like that college parisite patriot failed academic jeff goldstein, the walter mitty of the Blathersphere armchair patriot squad of kick ass tough nerds who will only serve when there is a draft, or a mandator service act, which may be in the works BTW.”
“Your logic is the kind that never learns from the past,but repeats it continously because you see are like an insane walter mitty superior aryan amoral let loose upon the internet”
“Or, since I'm still registered as a demonRAT, I'll vote 200 for mitty and 200 for hucky.”
“Ah, shucks, I voted for Sarah, but in the interest of diversity, I withdraw my Sarah vote, and give half a vote to each mitty and huckleberry.”
“I have seen reports in my local rag of people being brought to court for 'roaring and shouting' and 'doing push-ups in the street' and similar ridiculous cases. if the guards have time to bring these cases they should not be complaining about lack of resources. we need a fiction section for patslatt, political walter mitty, but someone who doesn't even believe what he's writing”
“Online users mitty pocoo jheaton wong888 truthseekers”
“The 'Falklands MC Winner' walter mitty has now been outed and asked to leave the Legion branch.”
“I'm sure that as a hero of the horrors of the trenches he was just a walter mitty type who needed to fool the public about his Military Service??”
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