Clumsy or uncoordinated in an endearing or cute way. Based on the difficulty
people have picking things up or performing tricky manual tasks while wearing mittens. This is especially the case with woollen mittens, which not only impede the individual
use of your fingers but also get easily covered in dirt or
snow.
This term also pertains to the type of
people who wear mittens; slightly strange children, possibly quite sheltered or with learning difficulties. These children sometimes had their mittens pinned to their clothing or wore a string connecting the mittens under the outer clothing layers so as to prevent their mittens being lost. It is the image of this
child with a haircut their
mum gave them and matching mittens and beanie that the adjective ‘mitten’ refers to.
'
Ugh, I was so drunk last night, I dropped my
beer like 3 times, I am such a mitten'
'Oh wow, did you see that mitten? That little
kid totally ran into that sliding glass door.'