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Answer for the clue "Thurber's Walter ", 5 letters:
mitty

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"adventurous daydreamer," 1950, from title character in "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty," short story by U.S. author James Thurber (1894-1961) first published in the "New Yorker" March 18, 1939.

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Mitty may refer to: Archbishop Mitty High School , a high school in San Jose, California John Joseph Mitty , fourth Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco Walter Mitty , a fictional character in: James Thurber's 1941 short story " ...

Usage examples of mitty.

His features were utterly nondescript, a Walter Mitty caricature of despair, and I couldn’t help remembering that some of our more notable assassins have been Walter Mitty types.

His features were utterly nondescript, a Walter Mitty caricature of despair, and I couldn't help remembering that some of our more notable assassins have been Walter Mitty types.

Mitty, with bright winter-apple cheeks and a splendid new beaver muff, would come down to watch her darling wheel and sweep.

The meek looking one in the blue-grey suit and the steel-rimmed spectacles was Walter Mitty.

His features were utterly nondescript, a Walter Mitty caricature of despair, and I couldn’.

For someone with Coke-bottle-thick glasses whose only previous experience in the military was army ROTC during college, it's pure Walter Mitty.

Cats named for famous personalities, real or fictional, are so named as a compliment to the namesake: Babe Ruth, Socrates, Walter Mitty, Queen Juliana, Maggie and Jiggs, Eleanor Roosevelt, George Washington.

These are the Walter Mitty types, or those who havent trained enough or have picked up an injury.

I replied, discreetly withholding that part where she described him as Walter Mitty in green drag.

Hare's old paratrooper turned out to be a Walter Mitty with no military service, one of Castle's finds had a long criminal record and the pretty girl that I had interviewed turned out to be the younger sister of an MI5 secretary.

Earnest, timid, and frail, Svetz is a kind of anti-Walter Mitty- a man thrust into exciting adventures he neither wants nor understands.