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A glove that gave up on fingers and never looked back.
means A mitten or baseball glove — a hand covering that groups the fingers together instead of separating them, prized for warmth or for catching things.
from Short for 'mitten,' which comes from Old French 'mitaine,' a word whose own roots are murky — possibly tied to 'mite,' as in a small or halved thing, hinting at a glove that's only half-made. English clipped it down to 'mitt' in casual speech, and in the 1800s American baseball players grabbed the word for their padded catching glove, stretching 'mitt' to also mean, slangy and affectionate, the human hand itself — 'put up your mitts.'
- origin
- short for mitten, trimmed in 19th century slang
- baseball use
- catchers and first basemen get the padded ones
- slang sense
- means hand, as in get your mitts off
- oven version
- thumb included, four fingers unionized into one