The word "mitts" is correct in written English.
It is often used informally to refer to hands or gloves, especially in a playful or affectionate manner.
Example: "Keep your mitts off my dessert!"
Alternatives: "Hands" or "Paws".
Heavy gloves (as opposed to mere mitts) were first worn in a world heavyweight championship fight in 1992 in New Orleans, when "Gentleman Jim Corbettt wrested the title from John L- Sullivan, who was famous as "the Boston Strong Boy" and infamous as a brutish drunk who on entering a saloon habitually roared: "I can lick any man in the house".
But a return to bare knuckles, or even mitts, would make the sport safer than it is with boxing gloves.
To prevent it, specialist manufacturers offered erection alarms, penis cases, sleeping mitts and hobbles to stop girls from spreading their legs.
Having been cut off from the public purse for 20 months, its politicians are desperate to get their mitts back on it again.The next is a split in the League's main rival, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party BNPP), led by Khaleda Zia, the other "battling begum", who is in jail on corruption charges.
I was offered red foam mitts (get it?) and saw Mr Romney ooh and aah over the Big Three's new cars.
In this environment, their bulbous mitts look a little inept instead of promising violence, they seem to be a metaphor for the challenges of ever getting close to someone.
Oh, and one greedy, incompetent banker has got his mitts on some undeserved millions.
Fingerless gloves, called mitts in colonial America, have five holes through which the fingers and thumb extend.
Ana Nichoola mitts, £29 High-end, goat-skin gloves (pictured above) from the pioneering women's brand founded by London racer Anna Glowinski.
"I remember being about five and checking boys out, thinking: Mmhmm, I'm going to get my mitts on him.
Missing out on Gamescom last year after the Steam Box was pushed back to 2015, this is the first time that the public will be able to get their mitts on the redesigned controllers.
