The knitted winter hat - what do YOU call it?

My Boy Scout Handbook called them “Navy Watch Caps”, which sounds like something you wear when you’re on watch in the Navy. Makes sense to me.

We never had them when I were lad, we just had the bobble-hat. Which was also just called a woolly hat.

Wool hat. Just ask Michael Nesmith.

(During at least the first year of the show, TV Guide listed his character as “Wool Hat.”)

After practice last night, I asked this question of the other 4 people. The first 2 answers were beanie and toque - tho both of those folk later said that wasn’t what they would really call them. One other guy agreed with me as to knit/watch cap. The 4th said he was from Florida, and they didn’t have such things and, hence, no need to call them anything. :smiley:

Winter hat or wool hat or just hat. Maybe knit or knitted hat or warm hat.

I wouldn’t recognize toboggan used like that.

I’ve heard the term “toque,” but only as used by Bob and Doug McKenzie, or people quoting them. When I was a kid, “stocking caps” were knitted and reeeaaaally long, like four feet long. Then the seventies ended and we all wised up, and they got just big enough to fit your head. But they were still called stocking caps in my neighborhood.

Mom knitted and her children all wore stocking caps.

ETA: and they were just big enough to cover your head, measured as she was knitting them (mom wasn’t wasting any yarn).

It’s a toque.
Philistines.

Toque or tuque. I’ve seen both spellings.

I have never once heard of a watch cap.

ETA: And toboggans are indeed sleds.

Honestly this sort of thing shouldn’t even be up for a vote. Next they’ll be trying to tell us that ‘hockey’ without qualification can sometimes mean field hockey instead of real hockey.

You mean horse hockey? :smiley:

Never heard of toque before this thread. I call the item in question a knit cap, and have heard ski cap, wool cap, and toboggan, and wouldn’t blink an eye at any of them.

But it is not a beanie. It is also not a hat, it’s a cap. :slight_smile:

Tossle-hat even if it doesn’t have that pom-pom thing on top. It may be the only part of the local dialect I’ve actually adopted.

Ski hat.

My parents both grew up in West Virginia, and I adopted their usage as a kid: toboggan.

I now live in California, and after many weird looks I’ve moved away from that. I usually call it a ski cap now.

Watch Caps are a specific type of toque . It may look the other way in the article but toques predate watch caps so :p.

$100 for a watch cap?? That’s insane!

I’ve never heard the word “toque” in 57 years until this thread. I suppose it’s pronounced as one syllable?

ETA: In Texas, we called them “tobaggans” when I was a kid, although it was known that this word was also used as a small sled. And in Texas, I never got to use a sled until I was an adult and had kids of my own.

Yes. As posted up-thread, rhymes with “fluke”.

I would never call a toque a hat. Hats, as all Canadians know, are made from beaver pelts, not wool.

“Cap” is a bit of a stretch, since a toque doesn’t have a beak or a brim.

“Ski hat”? Really?

“Tobaggan”? Really really ?!? No, just no. You ride a toboggan, wearing a toque.

Next thing you’ll be telling me is that baseball players in the summer wear bicycles on their heads.

Well, there’s your definitive answer. :smiley:

Those, too, are toques. Long toques, but toques.

Preach it, Brother Gorsnak, preach it!

There are strange things done on the Wikipedia when the topic of hockey comes up. Something about English girls wearing skirts playing a game on grass in the summer.