# What do you call this type of head covering? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 30, 2015, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-this-type-of-head-covering/726573 "2015-07-30T13:17:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2015, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-this-type-of-head-covering/726573/41 "2015-07-31T02:09:55Z")
A duck! ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2015, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-this-type-of-head-covering/726573/42 "2015-07-31T02:29:13Z")
Toques usually are a little more pointed and/or with some sort of decorative pom-pom on top. That’s either a watchcap or knit hat. ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2015, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-this-type-of-head-covering/726573/43 "2015-07-31T03:05:10Z")
It’s a thing you draw folded paper out of to make decisions. I believe it’s called a hat. Examples: Type of cake to make. [ol] [li]Chocolate[/li][li]Key Lime[/li][li]Lemon[/li][li]Angel Food[/li][li]Carrot[/li][/ol] Comedy Characters [ol] [li]Mr. Creosote[/li][li]Booger[/li][li]Debbie Downer[/li][li]Ken Shabby[/li][li]Cartman[/li][li]A Duck[/li][/ol] If you’d like to vote on them, I’ll come back every eight minutes and retabulate the results. No I won’t. ---
**Author:** ![cwthree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de0a6/32.png) [@cwthree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cwthree)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2015, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-this-type-of-head-covering/726573/44 "2015-07-31T03:23:20Z")
Watch cap. ---
**Author:** ![Chicken\_Fingers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Chicken\_Fingers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chicken_Fingers)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2015, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-this-type-of-head-covering/726573/45 "2015-08-01T03:04:05Z")
Toque! It bursts out like a French Candian expletive, because of the wicked cold. ---
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2015, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-this-type-of-head-covering/726573/46 "2015-08-01T03:36:18Z")
First, I would say it’s a hat. If pushed for clarification, I would then say knit cap. ---
**Author:** ![Nametag](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nametag/32/406_2.png) [@Nametag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nametag)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2015, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-this-type-of-head-covering/726573/47 "2015-08-01T04:03:15Z")
If you see someone wearing a knit cap, and he tells you it’s a toque, and you tell him it looks stupid, and he says “but you’re wearing one, too…” Is that a toquoque? ---
**Author:** ![Bootis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e8c25b/32.png) [@Bootis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bootis)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2015, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-this-type-of-head-covering/726573/48 "2015-08-02T21:20:33Z")
Wow, I’ve lived in the northeast, Midwest, Pittsburgh, central Texas , and Kansas City- never before today have I heard the term watch cap or toboggan to describe a hat. I’m with the posters who said “hat”, then if pressed, “knit hat”. Or “knit cap”. The term “wool cap” would also make me immediately think of a hat like this. I’ve heard touque enough before to know what’s being referred to when people say it, and that those who use hat term are nearly always Canadians or people from near the border. ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2015, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-this-type-of-head-covering/726573/49 "2015-08-03T00:41:09Z")
In the Northeast (New England)(Massachusetts) it was called a toboggan hat or cap because it was often worn while riding downhill on a toboggan (flat-bottomed sled). When I moved to the South in '73 I was quite amused to hear it called a toboggan, still am and like to envision one being worn on the head. > **[Google](http://www.google.com/webhp?nord=1#nord=1&q=toboggan+definition)** > > Happy Mother's Day! #GoogleDoodle ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2015, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-this-type-of-head-covering/726573/50 "2015-08-03T05:35:20Z")
It doesn’t have the ball like the one Mike “Wool Hat” Nesmith’s wife Phyllis knitted for him back in the 60s. I’d have called that a wool hat or a knitted cap until I joined the Coast Guard. That’s a watch cap. We were allowed to wear them ashore if the weather was cold; we didn’t HAVE to be on watch to wear one. Oh, you didn’t want to wear one with your dress blues or whites, but with undress blues or a working uniform, they were just fine. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-this-type-of-head-covering/726573.md?page=2)