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Definition: MITTY

Part of Speech Definition
Noun 1. The stormy petrel.[Websters].

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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"Mitty" is a common misspelling or typo for: kitty, mity.

Date "Mitty" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1909. (references)

Common Expressions: MITTY

Expressions Definition
Archbishop Mitty High School Archbishop Mitty High School, in San Jose, California, USA, named for the late Archbishop John Joseph Mitty, the fourth Archbishop of San Francisco, was the first Diocesan Catholic high school in the Santa Clara Valley. (references)
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is a 1939 short story by James Thurber. (references)
Walter Mitty Fictional character created by James Thurber who daydreams about his adventures and triumphs. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
Walter Mitty Walter Mitty is a fictional character in James Thurber's short story The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, published in 1941. Mitty is a meek, mild man with a vivid fantasy life: in a few dozen paragraphs he imagines himself a wartime pilot, an emergency-room surgeon, and a devil-may-care killer. The term now appears in dictionaries to describe a person who lives a fantasy life. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Extended Definition: MITTY

Mitty

Mitty may refer to:

  • Archbishop Mitty High School, a high school in San Jose, California
  • John Joseph Mitty, fourth Archbishop of the Archdiocese of San Francisco
  • Walter Mitty, a fictional character in James Thurber's short story "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"
  • Joe Mitty, a British salesman and founder of the first Oxfam charity shop in the United Kingdom in 1949
  • The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, a short story by James Thurber in 1941
  • The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (film), a 1947 comedy film, loosely based on the short story of the same name by James Thurber
  • The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2009 film), an upcoming film being being produced by 20th Century Fox, written by Jay Kogen and directed by Mark Waters
  • Buck Mitty, a fictional character appearing in the Marvel Comics universe, who was the senior entomology professor at ESU.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia; from the article "Mitty". Image Credit.
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Topics by Level of Interest: MITTY

Topics sorted by level of Interest Level (1=low, 600=high)     Topics sorted Alphabetically Level (1=low, 600=high)
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty 34     Archbishop Mitty High School 9
Joe Mitty 14     Joe Mitty 14
Walter Mitty 13     John Joseph Mitty 13
John Joseph Mitty 13     Mitty 3
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (film) 11     The Secret Life of Walter Mitty 34
Archbishop Mitty High School 9     The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (alternative meanings) 2
Mitty 3     The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (film) 11
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (alternative meanings) 2     Walter Mitty 13

Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses).

Translations: MITTY

Language Translations (or nearest inflections or synonyms, in parentheses)
Hanguk Mal 자기를 대단한 영웅으로 꿈꾸는 소심자 (Mitty), 몽상가 (stargazer, fantast, fantasist, ideologue, castle-builder). Additional references: Hanguk Mal, Korea, South, Korea, Mitty. (volunteer & more translations)
Hanguohua 자기를 대단한 영웅으로 꿈꾸는 소심자 (Mitty), 몽상가 (stargazer, fantast, fantasist, ideologue, castle-builder). Additional references: Hanguohua, Korea, South, Korea, Mitty. (volunteer & more translations)
Japanese ミットだ (mittal, mittful, Mitty). Additional references: Japanese, Japan, Taiwan, Mitty. (volunteer & more translations)
Korean 자기를 대단한 영웅으로 꿈꾸는 소심자 (Mitty), 몽상가 (stargazer, fantast, fantasist, ideologue, castle-builder). Additional references: Korean, Korea, South, Korea, Mitty. (volunteer & more translations)
Source: Eve, based on a combination of meta analysis and graph theory (for near and back translations). Top