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Mitty

Mitty \Mit"ty\, n. The stormy petrel. [Prov. Eng.]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Mitty

"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

n. (context UK dialect English) The stormy petrel.

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Mitty

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 " The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"
      • The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, a 1947 comedy film, loosely based on the short story
      • The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, a 2013 remake
  • Joe Mitty, a British salesman and founder of the first Oxfam charity shop in the United Kingdom in 1949
  • Buck Mitty, known as Humbug (comics), a fictional character appearing in the Marvel Comics universe, who was the senior entomology professor at ESU.
  • Mitty, Guinea

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.