mitten

See also: Mitten

English

Etymology

From Middle English myteyne, from Old French mitaine (Modern French mitaine), of unclear origin; possibly from mite, miste (“playful name for cat”) + -aine. Alternatively, mitaine may be from Old High German mittamo (“half”), superlative of mitti (“midpoint”), from Proto-Germanic *midjô, *midją (“middle, center”), from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between, in the middle, center”). Compare Catalan mitana, Medieval Latin mitta, mitana, and Occitan mitana.

Pronunciation

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmɪtn̩/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (Southern England, Western New England) IPA^(key): /ˈmɪʔn̩/
• Rhymes: -ɪtən

Noun

mitten (plural mittens)

1. A type of glove or garment that covers a hand with a separate sheath for the thumb, but not for other fingers, which are either enclosed in a single section or left uncovered.
2. A cat's or dog's paw that is a different colour from the main body.

   Synonym: sock

3. (colloquial, dated, as "the mitten") A romantic rejection; dismissal of a lover.

   to give someone the mitten; to get the mitten

4. (slang, chiefly in the plural) A boxing glove.

Derived terms

• Chinese mitten crab
• give the mitten to
• squish mitten

 

Translations

type of glove

• Afrikaans: moffie (af)
• Armenian: թաթպան (hy) (tʻatʻpan)
• Bashkir: бейәләй (beyələy)
• Belarusian: пальчатка f (palʹčatka)
• Catalan: manyopla f
• Cheyenne: to'ha
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: palcová rukavice f, palčák m
• Danish: luffe c, vante (da) c
• Dutch: want (nl) f
• Esperanto: duonganto
• Estonian: käpik (et), labakinnas, labak
• Faroese: vøttur m
• Finnish: lapanen (fi), kinnas (fi), rukkanen (fi)
• French: moufle (fr) f, mitaine (fr) f
• Galician: mitón m, manopra f
• Georgian: ხელჯაგი (xelǯagi), თათმანი (ka) (tatmani)
• German: Fäustling (de) m, Fausthandschuh (de) m (both chiefly used to specify, otherwise simply Handschuh (de))
• Greenlandic: aaqqat
• Hungarian: egyujjas kesztyű (hu)
• Icelandic: vettlingur (is) m, lúffa (is) f
• Ingrian: alain
• Irish: mitín m
• Italian: muffola (it) f, guanto a manopola m, mezzoguanto m
• Japanese: ミトン (ja) (miton)
• Kalmyk: беелә (beelä)
• Korean: 벙어리 장갑 (beong'eori janggap)
• Latgalian: kulaiņs m, kulaiņi pl
• Latvian: dūrainis m, dūraiņi m pl
• Luxembourgish: Moul f
• Maori: pūāhuru ringa
• Middle English: myteyne
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Navajo: lájish
• Norman: mitaine f, miton m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: vott (no) m

  Nynorsk: vott m

• Ojibwe: minjikaawan
• Polish: mitenka (pl) f, mitynka f
• Russian: ва́режка (ru) f (várežka), рукави́ца (ru) f (rukavíca)
• Scottish Gaelic: miotag f
• Serbo-Croatian: rukavica (sh) f
• Slovene: palčnik (sl) m
• Southern Altai: меелей (meeley)
• Spanish: manopla (es) f, mitón (es) m
• Swedish: vante (sv) c, tumvante (sv) c, bälghandske c
• Turkish: kolçak (tr)
• Ukrainian: рукави́чка f (rukavýčka), рукави́ця f (rukavýcja)
• Walloon: mofe (wa)
• Welsh: miten f, mitens m pl
• Winnebago: kšaikšų

(with "the" in English) a romantic rejection; dismissal of a lover — see also rejection

• Hungarian: kikosarazás, kosár (hu)
• Ukrainian: гарбу́з (uk) m (harbúz)

Verb

mitten (third-person singular simple present mittens, present participle mittening, simple past and past participle mittened)

1. (transitive) To dress in mittens; to put a mitten on.
   • 1911 August, Jack London, “[Smoke Bellew] Tale Three: The Stampede to Squaw Creek”, in Cosmopolitan, volume LI, number 3, New York, N.Y.: International Magazine Company, section II, page 361, column 1:

     He mittened his hand and beat it violently for a minute before exposing it to the frost to strike a match.

Anagrams

• titmen

German

Pronunciation

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Adverb

mitten

1. In the middle.

   Mitten auf der Straße lag ein toter Hund.

   In the middle of the street lay a dead dog.

Related terms

• inmitten
• zumitten

Further reading

• “mitten” in Duden online
• “mitten” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Swedish

Noun

mitten

1. definite singular of mitt