# Your Name for a Cap of Knitted Yarn... **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 12, 2011, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-name-for-a-cap-of-knitted-yarn/585256 "2011-06-12T22:36:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![typoink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecb155/32.png) [@typoink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/typoink)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2011, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-name-for-a-cap-of-knitted-yarn/585256/21 "2011-06-13T03:43:36Z")
Ski hat, snow hat, winter hat, and wool hat were all used in my hometown (rural northern Illinois). It’s never a cap; caps have a brim. I’ve since learned the word tuque, and it’s my preferred term now since it’s specific. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2011, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-name-for-a-cap-of-knitted-yarn/585256/22 "2011-06-13T04:54:27Z")
I call it a wool hat, but I think that’s just me. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2011, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-name-for-a-cap-of-knitted-yarn/585256/23 "2011-06-13T07:02:41Z")
I must admit, I’ve never heard of a tuque. We’ve always called them stocking caps . . . but if there’s a little ball on top it becomes a tossle cap. I’m sure it started out as “tassel,” but by the time I heard it, it had become “tossle.” ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2011, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-name-for-a-cap-of-knitted-yarn/585256/24 "2011-06-13T16:37:53Z")
> [@Max\_the\_Immortal](#): > > It’s a toque, and it’s for wintertime. Exactly. And if it’s a motorcycle helmet, it’s a crash toque. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![tallcoldone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9a140/32.png) [@tallcoldone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tallcoldone)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2011, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-name-for-a-cap-of-knitted-yarn/585256/25 "2011-06-13T17:10:13Z")
I voted other- as a kids in western Ohio, we called the “sipple(sp?) caps”. I don’t live in that area anymore and have’t heard the term in decades. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2011, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-name-for-a-cap-of-knitted-yarn/585256/26 "2011-06-13T17:12:53Z")
Where I grew up, in the deep north, across the border from a very French section of Canada, they were referred to as ‘bonnets.’ ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2011, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-name-for-a-cap-of-knitted-yarn/585256/27 "2011-06-13T17:26:33Z")
Y’all might enjoy [How do you spell “toque”?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=222159) from 11-08-2003, 11:13 AM through 11-09-2003, 03:55 PM ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2011, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-name-for-a-cap-of-knitted-yarn/585256/28 "2011-06-13T17:53:15Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > I call it a wool hat, but I think that’s just me. No, it’s me too. I voted wooly hat, because that was the closest thing. But to me a wool hat (which doesn’t have to be made out of wool) ends at the top of my head, whether there’s a little ball up there or not. Anything longer is a stocking hat. And if it has eye and mouth holes it’s a ski mask. ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2011, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-name-for-a-cap-of-knitted-yarn/585256/29 "2011-06-13T18:26:23Z")
My first husband shortens a lot of words. He calls it a “boggin”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-name-for-a-cap-of-knitted-yarn/585256.md?page=1)