mitten
- noun
- /ˈmɪtən/
- It's really cold tonight, so don't forget your mittens.
- wear mittens
- put on mittens
- a pair of mittens
And they are these little mittens but with Father Christmas on them.
- And they are these little mittens but with Father Christmas on them.
- You've got your fingerless mittens in so many pies, haven't you?
- Do you got to be wild to put your hand into a mitten, don't you?
- And it also came with the extra little like mittens as well that just like clip on.
- You know, it's like you could get, you could get a, you could get mittens for a cat.
- And I just remember this one funny part like, and, and huge mittens with the glove warmers in there.
- I love that he loves mittens, that he just wears his mittens.
- They had started to melt around Cooper's sheer mittens.
- And therefore I will not answer questions like Zoe, I want to sell Kitten Mittens.
Examples
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Emily and Sarah put on their coats and mittens, and turned to go.
Fiction book (1992) -
It's weird to see a Canadian without mittens.
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And they are these little mittens but with Father Christmas on them.
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Mine says you must wear mittens the whole time.
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I was making these mittens for him.
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I ordered these mittens on Amazon for Jackson.
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Drop the snowballs, kick them away from the snow suits and keep the mittens where I can see them.
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Her jacket lay in a heap with her mittens in the middle of the dining room floor.
Fiction book (1994) -
When the girls were little, I knitted them matching mittens and hats.
Fiction book (1990) -
It's really cold tonight, so don't forget your mittens.
Synonyms
A warm glove that keeps the fingers together and has a thumb
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Etymology
Mitten comes from an old French word mitaine that meant 'glove'. Think of the short English word mitt, which has the same idea, and you can remember a mitten is a hand cover with one thumb and one space for the other fingers to keep your hand warm.