most people say its a sled... which yeah it is... but its also a hat... i was just wondering who thought it was a hat and who thinks its a sled... i call it a hat... i guess its a West Virginia and southern thing... i dunno
2007-12-11 12:18:57 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
ok... so just us people from WV and the south think its a hat... thats weird how different everyone is... its kinda cool...
2007-12-11 12:23:35 · update #1
i think it is a southern thing because when i lived in ny it was a sled, never heard a hat called that until i moved to nc, now i know that it is both a hat and a sled
2007-12-11 12:22:47 · answer #1 · answered by Brandy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i thought sled first i wonder if its a food also
stocking cap
Main Entry: stocking cap
Function: noun
Date: circa 1897
: a long knitted cone-shaped cap with a tassel or pom-pom worn especially for winter sports or play
In Southern American English, toboggan can also refer to the type of hat known elsewhere as a tuque, a ski hat, or a beanie. Sometimes this is shortened to boggan or lengthened to boggan cap.
A toboggan is a simple sled used on snow, to carry one or more people (often children) down a hill or other slope, for recreation. Designs vary from simple, traditional models to modern engineered composites. A toboggan differs from most sleds or sleighs in that it has no runners or skis on the underside. The bottom of a toboggan rides directly on the snow.
to (figuratively) go downhill unstoppably until one reaches the bottom.
1945: US House of Representatives, 1945 extension of the Reciprocal trade agreements act. Hearings before the Committee on finance, United States Senate, Seventy-ninth Congress, first session, on H.R. 3240, an act to extend the authority of the President under section 350 of the Tariff act of 1930, as amended, and for other purposes.
A depression in one nation can become the slide on which our civilization would toboggan into economic collapse.
2006: Keith Dixon, Altered Life
I can't win, can I? You think I'm posh and my folks think I'm tobogganing down-market faster than the royal family.
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2007-12-11 20:29:05 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A knit hat worn to keep the head warm in cold temperatures.
OR
A long narrow sled without runners; boards curve upward in front
Typically, i go for the sled before the hat.
2007-12-11 20:22:19 · answer #3 · answered by Mitch M 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I call it a sled I've never heard of a toboggan hat
2007-12-11 20:21:39 · answer #4 · answered by I'm Just Me ♥ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's both.
toboggan
A long, narrow, runnerless sled constructed of thin boards curled upward at the front end.
Origin of the word toboggan.
"long, flat-bottomed sled," 1829, from Canadian Fr. tabagane, from Algonquian (probably Micmac) tobakun "a sled." The verb is recorded from 1846.
As Amer.Eng. colloquial for a type of long woolen cap, it is recorded from 1929 (earlier toboggan cap, 1928), presumably because one wore such a cap while tobogganing.
2007-12-11 20:22:05 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
here in MN, most everyone I have ever talked to call it a sled. I've never heard anyone call it a hat, until now.
2007-12-11 20:23:42 · answer #6 · answered by Krysta 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its a hat that you wear while on your sled.
2007-12-11 20:22:33 · answer #7 · answered by Emma B 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
its like a sled that u slide on 4 the winter
u no lil kids do on the snow
2007-12-11 20:21:57 · answer #8 · answered by a91mtl 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My first thought was a sled.
2007-12-11 20:21:28 · answer #9 · answered by cldb730 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its not a hat its a sled. click here:
2007-12-11 20:31:28 · answer #10 · answered by nuyorican_15bih 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋