# Need an adjective referring to hats **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 6, 2011, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-adjective-referring-to-hats/566657 "2011-01-06T20:56:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Twoflower](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/twoflower/32/22_2.png) [@Twoflower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Twoflower)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2011, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-adjective-referring-to-hats/566657/1 "2011-01-06T20:56:10Z")
Seems like my clients so frequently ask me to do the impossible, that I’m trying to think up a humorous way to say that one of my specialties is pulling rabbits out of hats. Clearly it needs to be “[hat related term]-lagomorphic extractions”, but I can’t think of the hat-related term. Any suggestions from the Teeming Millions? Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2011, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-adjective-referring-to-hats/566657/2 "2011-01-06T21:03:24Z")
Millinery? ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2011, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-adjective-referring-to-hats/566657/3 "2011-01-06T21:56:32Z")
How about a specific hat? Bowler, derby? Bowler-bunny separation specialist? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Heckity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a5b964/32.png) [@Heckity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heckity)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2011, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-adjective-referring-to-hats/566657/4 "2011-01-06T22:26:36Z")
Typically bunnies were pulled out of top hats - why not go for the alternate form ‘topper’? ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2011, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-adjective-referring-to-hats/566657/5 "2011-01-06T22:39:40Z")
Hatty? ---
**Author:** ![Twoflower](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/twoflower/32/22_2.png) [@Twoflower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Twoflower)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2011, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-adjective-referring-to-hats/566657/6 "2011-01-06T23:06:23Z")
We’re getting close … “millinery” is probably the technically correct term, but what’s the adjective form? millineric? bowler-bunny separation is pretty good, but I was hoping for something a bit more technical-sounding. Maybe the hat-specific angle is the way to go … not necessarily the right hat, but fedora-lagomorphic extraction has the right ring to it. It’s all bovine scatology anyway … 😉 ---
**Author:** ![bleach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bleach/32/3106_2.png) [@bleach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bleach)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2011, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-adjective-referring-to-hats/566657/7 "2011-01-06T23:18:27Z")
Well the collapsible, springy top hats are referred to as a “gibus”, named after Antoine Gibus, its inventor. It’d be really obscure but how does “Gibus-lagomorphic extractions” strike you? It sounds vaguely like bioengineering. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2011, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-adjective-referring-to-hats/566657/8 "2011-01-06T23:43:49Z")
I always think millinery refers to women’s hats, and I’ve never seen a magician remove a rabbit from a flower-infested lady’s hat. I’d vote for Haberdashery-lagomorphic Extraction if I get a vote. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2011, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-adjective-referring-to-hats/566657/9 "2011-01-07T00:39:07Z")
Chapeauesque ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2011, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-adjective-referring-to-hats/566657/10 "2011-01-07T00:51:35Z")
I’m trying to find ‘hat’ in Latin. The Latin version of The Cat in the Hat is Cattus Petasatus . Although I’m sure that “from the hat” has a different suffix that “in/with/whatever the hat.” One online English to Latin translator lists these as the translation of hat: PILLEUS PILEUS PILEUM GALERUM PILLEUM GALERUS APEX PETASUS So petasus might be close to what you want. Maybe someone who knows Latin can fix it up. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2011, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-adjective-referring-to-hats/566657/11 "2011-01-07T00:54:21Z")
Conejo de sombrero? ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2011, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-adjective-referring-to-hats/566657/12 "2011-01-07T01:03:44Z")
“I Bullwinkled a rabbit out of a hat” ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_T](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Gary\_T](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_T)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2011, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-adjective-referring-to-hats/566657/13 "2011-01-07T05:01:30Z")
“Petaso-lagomorphic extractions” sounds good to me. ---
**Author:** ![Twoflower](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/twoflower/32/22_2.png) [@Twoflower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Twoflower)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2011, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-adjective-referring-to-hats/566657/14 "2011-01-07T05:57:39Z")
> [@Gary\_T](#): > > “Petaso-lagomorphic extractions” sounds good to me. We may have a winner-- that one definitely has the feel I’m looking for, although “petaso” may be a bit too obscure of a term. At least now I know there isn’t some really obvious term I couldn’t think of. 😉 More suggestions still welcome! ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2011, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-adjective-referring-to-hats/566657/15 "2011-01-07T10:57:29Z")
_Lagomorphic_ means rabbit-shaped, so that’s not what you want. How about _lago-petasic extractions_ instead? ETA or _lago-petasatic_ but _lago-petasic_ sounds better IMO. ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2011, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-adjective-referring-to-hats/566657/16 "2011-01-07T11:16:12Z")
Did anybody else read the topic and come in here to say “Cunning”?😃 ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2011, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-adjective-referring-to-hats/566657/17 "2011-01-07T13:35:07Z")
That only refers to plans, not solutions. 😃 I used the word _innovative_ for this on my CV. ---
**Author:** ![snowmaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e99b99/32.png) [@snowmaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowmaster)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2011, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-adjective-referring-to-hats/566657/18 "2011-01-07T16:52:38Z")
Could we call you a Wand-Wielding Trans-Brim Leporidae Extractionist? ---
**Author:** ![Twoflower](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/twoflower/32/22_2.png) [@Twoflower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Twoflower)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2011, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-adjective-referring-to-hats/566657/19 "2011-01-07T17:04:39Z")
> [@snowmaster](#): > > Could we call you a Wand-Wielding Trans-Brim Leporidae Extractionist? BINGO! “wand-wielding” makes it too long, but “trans-brim leporidae extractionist” is perfect! Thanks, all! And yes, **Quartz** , “innovative” is the choice for more formal communications. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_T](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Gary\_T](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_T)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2011, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-adjective-referring-to-hats/566657/20 "2011-01-07T17:49:42Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > _Lagomorphic_ means rabbit-shaped… Not in any dictionary I’ve seen. It’s the adjective form of _lagomorph_, and a lagomorph is a hare or rabbit. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-an-adjective-referring-to-hats/566657.md?page=2)