Mittens
Mittens is the plural of mitten: a covering for the hand and wrist with a separate section for the thumb. The other fingers share a section. The ordinary dictionary sense is therefore different from fingerless gloves, even though modified garments can be described with additional words.
- Meaning
- Hand coverings with a separate thumb section
- Name or word origin
- English word name
Sources and meaning notes
The source supports the garment definition. Any association with a cat’s paws is a naming analogy, not a required coat pattern.
- Merriam-Webster: mittens The cited English dictionary senses; not a claim that every pet with this name was named for that sense
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Catalog grouping: Unisex. This is a browsing label and does not restrict which cats can use the name.
Names in similar collections to Mittens
These entries have source references and overlap with this name in the site’s editorial collections. The overlap does not measure pet-owner preferences or prove a shared linguistic origin.