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I'd just call it a "hat" or a "winter hat," myself, but the wiki suggestion of "ski hat" could work too I think. (I'm originally from the northeast.)
I thought "knit cap" when I saw the pic, but I don't come from a cold climate...
Yep - Aussies call it a beanie.
Beanie, ski hat, or knitted cap. I'd go for the last one, personally, since it's more descriptive than "beanie" or "tuque," both of which seem like place-specific nouns.
Is that how it's spelled? I've always spelled it "touque". Hmm....
knit cap or knit hat or ski hat. I originally wanted to say watch cap (http://www.royea.net/twistedrib.html), but that has a fold.
(Am American.)
I'm technically Canadian, but I still just call it a hat. Occasionally differentiated with "blue hat" or "red hat."
::gets nerdy happy linguist vibes from this discussion::
I would call it a knit cap, myself (and I'm firmly from the middle bits of the US). The phrase "stocking cap" makes me think of one that's excessively long and pointy (like a elf hat?) and "ski hat" really has no meaning for me. Not a beanie, though--those have propellers.
My roommate says "knit cap" or "stocking cap."
I've also heard them called "hoodie hats" where I'm from, but only from one source, so I have no idea where that's coming from.
I would call it a knit cap, myself (and I'm firmly from the middle bits of the US). The phrase "stocking cap" makes me think of one that's excessively long and pointy (like a elf hat?) and "ski hat" really has no meaning for me. Not a beanie, though--those have propellers.
My roommate says "knit cap" or "stocking cap."
I've also heard them called "hoodie hats" where I'm from, but only from one source, so I have no idea where that's coming from.
Ski hat or stocking cap, though that's a bit antiquated.
Or a knit hat.
Or just "hat that I need because it is zero degrees out, omg." I have two--one is gray with a red border and the other is black and white striped. The gray one is pretty, the striped one is WARM and can pull right down to my glasses if need be. Oy. Enough winter already.
(Firmly Midwestern.)
Or a knit hat.
Or just "hat that I need because it is zero degrees out, omg." I have two--one is gray with a red border and the other is black and white striped. The gray one is pretty, the striped one is WARM and can pull right down to my glasses if need be. Oy. Enough winter already.
(Firmly Midwestern.)
knit cap, ski cap, knitted hat... though most people I know usually call it a tuque. (Note--am from a state on the Canadian border *g*)
And I've always spelled it "Toque." I think I need to look it up in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary.
I think I'd call it a "watch cap", too.
Caveat: I'm from Los Angeles. Such hats are purely ornamental here, and most often referred to as "You know, that hat Justin Timberlake was wearing at the Lakers game last week, it was on Extra..."
So my hat knowledge is totally suspect.
Caveat: I'm from Los Angeles. Such hats are purely ornamental here, and most often referred to as "You know, that hat Justin Timberlake was wearing at the Lakers game last week, it was on Extra..."
So my hat knowledge is totally suspect.
Maybe it's one of those passive-aggressive Canadian things and you can spell it any way you want?
"So, what are you?"
"Me? I'm a toque."
"A touque?"
"Um, okay. Hold me?"
"So, what are you?"
"Me? I'm a toque."
"A touque?"
"Um, okay. Hold me?"
For myself, hat. On others.. skull cap or winter cap or hat... depends.
I hear lots of people calling them beanies, but I'd probably go for 'woolly hat', or in the family 'bobble-less bobble hat', because they really look like they *should* have a bobble.
when I moved to North Carolina, I was really surprised to discover that the locals call them "toboggans". No, really! They wear sleds on their heads! Um. It does make reading police reports in the paper really funny, though...
I grew up in the Midwest US calling them just hats.
I grew up in the Midwest US calling them just hats.
Ski hat, knit hat. Bobble hat if it had a bobble on it.
I'd call it a stocking cap.
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