mitt

gant de cuisine, gant de baseball

Grand gant qui protège la main pour manipuler des objets chauds ou attraper une balle.

En anglais simple : A large glove that protects your hand when handling hot things or catching a ball.

• Use a mitt for that hot pan.
• He caught the ball in his mitt.
• Where are the oven mitts?

Synonymes : glove

Expressions courantes : oven mitt, baseball mitt, catcher’s mitt

moufle

Gant avec une partie séparée pour le pouce et une autre pour tous les autres doigts.

En anglais simple : A glove with one part for your thumb and another for all your other fingers.

• She lost a wool mitt.
• The children wore warm mitts in the snow.
• These knitted mitts match my scarf.

Synonymes : mitten

Expressions courantes : wool mitt, knitted mitt, winter mitt

patte, main

Nom familier de la main, surtout quand on parle de toucher ou de prendre des choses.

En anglais simple : A hand, especially when someone talks about touching or taking things.

• Keep your mitts off my cake!
• He grabbed the bag with his huge mitts.
• Wash those dirty mitts before dinner.

Synonymes : hand

Expressions courantes : dirty mitt, keep your mitts, mitts off something