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Chris -- 2018-04-11
I suspect this in just a misinterpretation of the way this word is spelled but how interesting if the user does not know the sport and thinks it may have to do with finding a bad mitten in a pile of good ones…
I don’t have the exact quote, but it was something to the effect that ’ the park was deserted except for a couple people playing bad mitten ‘
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“Bad mitten” gets a mention in Kem’s post from last month on “shufflecock”: http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/view … 9407#p9407
Last edited by patschwieterman (2009-04-21 13:45:42)
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http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/view … hp?id=2326 is another “bad mitten†post, started by iskndarbey.
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Also mentioned there, by jorkel, is “bat mittenâ€, which is a pretty good eggcorn for me. A racket (racquet) is very much like a bat in its function, and as jorkel pointed out, a racket is mitten-like in its way: if you want to make a bat into a racket, put a mitten on the end of it. That fact that the badminton birdie shuttles a lot slower and hits a lot softer than, say, a racquetball or squash or tennis ball, somehow fits in with the mittenishness for me.
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A bad midden sounds like a pretty gross place to end up.
Last edited by DavidTuggy (2009-04-21 16:29:10)
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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Another variant out there (I just ran across it) is bat mitton , or batmitton . Less likely to have a mitten in it, but reinforces the idea of a bat. fwiw.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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