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Mitty2|ˈmɪtɪ|
Also Walter Mitty.
[f. the name of Walter Mitty, hero of James Thurber's short story The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (in New Yorker (1939) 18 Mar.).]
A person who indulges in day-dreams; one who imagines a more adventurous or enjoyable life for himself than he actually leads; the characteristics of such a person. Freq. attrib. or quasi-adj. Hence Mittyˈesque, ˈMittyish, Mitty-like adjs.
1950B. Schulberg Disenchanted (1951) xvii. 313 I've had daydreams of how I'd come back. Walter Mitty stuff about arriving in style. 1953Sunday Times 14 June 8/4 The Mitty me, I notice, will risk his life for a trifle, but never gets his hands dirty. 1958Times Lit. Suppl. 16 May 274/1 Greave takes refuge from the horrid realities of life in Mittyesque fantasies, pretending he is a high⁓powered American salesman. 1960Harper's Bazaar Apr. 125/1 The average motoring man is..a visionary, a Walter Mitty locked in a private world of fantasy... Vintage cars seldom fail to spark off the Mitty in a man. 1960Sunday Express 12 June 14/5 Women..live in a dream world of their own imagining—a Walter Mitty-ish ‘Other Life’. 1961John o' London's 28 Sept. 363/3 I'm in the delirious position of being able to indulge my Mitty-like obsession. 1968S. Brittan Left or Right v. 106 The whole Walter Mitty idea of a private line from Downing Street to the White House. 1972Guardian 11 July 10/5 Both men are Mittyesque failures. 1974N. Freeling Dressing of Diamond 33 Bernard was doing his hospitality act... This was no Mitty performance. |