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kit glove

kit glove is the misspelling of kid glove.

Meaning of kid glove

Noun

kid glove (plural kid gloves)

  1. (figuratively, plural-normally) A metaphorical representation of careful handling.
    • to handle with kid gloves
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see kid, glove.
    • As he saw her hands in their old black kid gloves getting the silver out of the worn purse, his heart contracted with pain of love of her.1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter V, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC

Questions about kit glove

What is kit glove the misspelling of?
Kit glove is the misspelling of kid glove.

Words near kit glove in the dictionary

  1. kit bags
  2. kit car
  3. Kit Carson County
  4. kit fox
  5. kit foxes
  6. kit glove
  7. kit gun
  8. kit guns
  9. Kit Kat
  10. Kit Kat shuffle
  11. Kit Kats

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kit glove (page history and authors); kid glove (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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