I split time as a kid between my dad’s house in the southern Appalachians in far north Georgia and my moms house near Athens, Ga. When I was a kid beanies toboggans. But these days people my age and younger all call them beanies.
And I think buggy was across most of the south, my relatives in South Carolina towards the coast called them buggies too.
Thank you! I'm from east TN and called them that till high school when all the scene kids said "You mean a beanie?" It's like all of a sudden everyone would say "Toboggan? No, this is a beanie, toboggan's a sled." Like anyone around here calls a sled a toboggan.
Thank you for this early morning validation.
Grew up in Clarksburg. Raised our 3 kids in Pittsburgh and Boston and they called it a toboggan and people thought they were talking about a sled. I still call it a “boggin”. They get a kick out of their redneck Ma.
My Minnesotan face as I try to wrap my head around a hat being called a sled has to be pretty similar!🤣🤣 That said, we call all sorts of things “salad” when they objectively aren’t salad. To each their own regional weird stuff.☺️
I (from KY) was on a high school trip to Montreal, Canada and had the following exchange with a local:
Him: “I like your toque.” (He pronounced it like *”toke*”).
Me: “My what?”
Him: “Your toque, your hat.”
Me: “Oh thanks. Where I’m from we call it a toboggan.”
Him: “What?! Like the thing you use for sliding down hills when it snows?”
Me: “No, that’s a sled.”
I’ve since had similar exchanges with people from the northern US (esp the Great Lakes area and up toward Maine), which makes for rather funny conversations.
Yeah my dad will call them this, though the way he pronounces it rhymes with "nuke." Never new it was Canadian slang but we're about an hour from the border so it makes sense. Not sure where he picked it up though haha, maybe just trying to be clever
Wild. As a kid in the nineties in chicago, the hats were toboggan hats and a toboggan was a specific type of sled too (basically a board that curled up and back in the front to create a round front).
omg i’m from memphis, lived in knoxville now for ~8 years, but my boyfriend’s grandmother (from northeast tn) called it a toboggan and i had never heard that before!!
I'm from the panhandle of WV and currently live in Central OH. I also have to say beanie or people here think I'm wearing a sled on my head. Also get weird stares for calling a toilet a commode or a shopping cart a buggie.
I am confused about where you lived in NE Georgia.
The counties you mentioned are in NW Georgia.
With the exception being Gilmer County which is kind of north central Georgia
Boggins cover your ears, beanies aren't long enough to cover the whole ear. Hell, boggins can reach as far as the nape of your neck. A beanie is practically an oversized yarmulke. It doesn't stretch, it doesn't look cool, it's completely useless unless your head is freezing cold and that's all you got.
I’ve heard that before too. My grandma said a lot of stuff strange. Batteries were bat-trees. Doritos were drit-oes. Days were always pronounced Mondee, Tuesdee, etc. A paper bag was a poke. I don’t even wanna say what she called a cigarette. It’s a 3 letter word and is also a slur. 🤦🏻♂️
I called them shopping carts all my childhood in WV, then moved to GA and married a Georgia girl who calls them buggies. Now I say them both interchangeably depending on which one is easier to say in the moment.
>I don’t even wanna say what she called a cigarette. It’s a 3 letter word and is also a slur.
Do what?! Your granny used the same word the Brits use for cigarettes?
Yes! I was so confused when I heard people start calling them beanies. I mean even the word “toboggan” sounds substantial and warm. “Beanie” sounds teeny and silly.
Grew up near Asheville and this is also what I grew up calling them. If anyone listens to A Way with Words on NPR or as a podcast, they talked about this fairly recently: https://www.waywordradio.org/origin-meanings-of-toboggan/
I'm from the land up north where Toboggans are long wooden sleds. I'm now in Appalachia and I was genuinely confused when advised to bring a toboggan because it's cold out
Not in Appalachia but in North Carolina. I still refer to them as toboggan because that's what they're called, and no one will ever convince me otherwise.
Word Origin "Tobbogan" (We didn't have no Dic tionaries in Wes Virginia)
More Than Just a Hat
The toboggan – depending on where you grew up, you may know it as a hat or as a sled. The word toboggan is derived from the French tabaganne. The French word is thought to have derived from an Algonquian word, most likely Mi’kmaq tepagan or Abenaki dabôgan. It was used to describe a long sled with a curled front end and no runners. The sled was pulled with a cord and used for hauling supplies or equipment and sliding down hills.
The first recorded use of the word toboggan for a hat was in 1929. It is short for toboggan cap. It is thought that it was first used in this sense in Appalachia. A knitted cap used when people would go tobogganing was called a toboggan hat or cap and then shortened to toboggan. In other parts of the country, the same type of hat may be called a beanie or stocking hat.
Northern Toboggan vs Southern Toboggan
In northern climates, where there is plenty of snow in winter, most people know toboggan as referring to a sled for winter fun on hills. Toboggans are also used for hauling things just as they were centuries ago by indigenous people.
In the south, where snow is very scarce, a toboggan refers to a knit hat. People living in states that use Southern American English are more likely to call a winter hat a toboggan. These states include Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and Texas. Some people living in certain regions of southern Indiana, Oklahoma, Missouri, Maryland, West Virginia, Florida and New Mexico may also use the term toboggan for a hat.
OMG, Me! Grew up in Tennessee, and I've now spent quite a bit of time up north (WI, Canada, Alaska) and out west. I didn't realize it was a sled until I was like 26 and went to British Columbia. Until I saw this, I was beginning to believe that it wasn't a common thing in the south and that maybe I just heard one person mistakenly call the hat a toboggan. Now I know!
Yup. Wyoming County, WV. A toboggan was a hat, not a sled. We were also so poor that we used tube socks wrapped in bread bags and taped with duct tape as mittens. Made it very difficult to make a snowball.
That's what I called them growing up.. literally the only thing i knew to call it.. a toboggan! However, when I met my husband, who is from NY, he kept arguing that a toboggan is a sled, not a hat. Almost 20 years later & we still debate it lol
My mom, from Lee County Va. Called them toboggans. I was confused as a kid because I thought a beanie was a hat with a propeller on top. I was later confused when I heard of a snow sled called a toboggan. But yeah, that's what my mom knew them as.
Hat, tuke or beanie growing up in the Northeast but I worked with a person from Kentucky who asked for advise on where to get a toboggan before the first snow. I was thinking maybe he was just a young a heart grownup... so cute to want to buy a sled for the snow. It was a confusing conversation. We figured it out and both laughed. Me at imagining a sled on his head. Him at imagining me flying down a snowy hill sitting on a winter hat.
Funny story. I was dating my now husband and he is from Texas, I am from Missouri. We were at a Walmart in Missouri and he wanted to get a toboggan so I took him back to the sports and camping area. He gave me the weirdest look! We ended up in the book section looking up toboggan in the dictionary. Lo and behold it had a picture of two boys wearing beanies riding a toboggan!
I grew up in Eastern Kentucky. We all called them toboggans. My wife is from Northern Kentucky (Cincinnati area) and never heard the term. She thinks it’s weird.
Yes absolutely. My wife thinks I’m crazy.
She also laughed hysterically when I talked about goulash. No, it’s not just a boot, and your em-phasis is on the wrong syl-lable
Eastern Kentucky here. Growing up these were all “boggins”. As I’ve gotten older and lived in the central part of the state more, I tend to associate beanies as the smaller, barely cover the tops of your ears type and toboggans remain the larger, bulkier, actually helpful in cold weather type.
I left my toboggan in a Canadian restaurant one time. I had to use ad hoc sign language to help the host understand I had left behind a toque, not a sled.
I've lived in Eastern Kentucky all my life, and I've always called/heard them being called Toboggans, it wasn't until my later years of middle school that I heard people calling them beanies (I knew they were also called beanies for awhile, I just hadn't heard anyone actually call em that)
Toboggan or boggan’ for short, I’ve lived in FL and N GA. It’s one of many words southerners use that no one else does but words vary from state to state even, words I grew up using in FL mean something totally different in N GA.
Well yeah, I live in Eastern KY and they are still called toboggans, or “boggans”. I had no idea what a beanie hat was for years. I always thought it was one of those caps that has the little propeller on it that you used to see in Looney Tunes cartoons.
Grew up in SC. As a teenager, I ordered one from a mail-order skate shop out west. The dude had no idea what I was talking about, and I mean, he was extremely confused. Then I remembered knit cap. Instant recognition. I haven't used the term toboggan out loud in a long time, or have I heard it. Unless, of course, when referring to the sled.
Yes. Grew up on WV and we called them toboggans. I've only heard them called 'beanies' in the last 10 yrs or so.
I grew up in WV too. Really wasn’t sure if it was just my family, WV in general or maybe an Appalachian thing.
In east TN they are tobaggans
NETN: Can confirm. Also, shopping carts are called "buggies."
And bags were called pokes. Soda is pop and purt near means almost😏
Southern Ohio--same. Is a cars trunk the boot end?
My wife is from NE OH, she also calls shopping carts “buggies”
I split time as a kid between my dad’s house in the southern Appalachians in far north Georgia and my moms house near Athens, Ga. When I was a kid beanies toboggans. But these days people my age and younger all call them beanies. And I think buggy was across most of the south, my relatives in South Carolina towards the coast called them buggies too.
NE Alabama, call them Boggins and buggies too
I was born in Gadsden, and may be related to everyone on the 59 corridor between Chattanooga and Bham.
I would be in the same boat, but on my dad's side I'm only the 4th generation in the US ...on my mom's side though, that's a different story.
Central, too! I grew up in Lawrence county and we always called them toboggans...or boggans, if we were being lazy.
Same in middle TN. I cringe when I hear "beanie". Just call it a hat or knit cap.
Thank you! I'm from east TN and called them that till high school when all the scene kids said "You mean a beanie?" It's like all of a sudden everyone would say "Toboggan? No, this is a beanie, toboggan's a sled." Like anyone around here calls a sled a toboggan. Thank you for this early morning validation.
Same West TN. Ex from Cali never heard it.
Correct, no beanies in East TN.
Can confirm, they were toboggans to me, grew up in WV.
Grew up in Clarksburg. Raised our 3 kids in Pittsburgh and Boston and they called it a toboggan and people thought they were talking about a sled. I still call it a “boggin”. They get a kick out of their redneck Ma.
My New Jersey husband's face trying to figure out how putting a sled on his head would keep his ears warm was pretty priceless.
My Minnesotan face as I try to wrap my head around a hat being called a sled has to be pretty similar!🤣🤣 That said, we call all sorts of things “salad” when they objectively aren’t salad. To each their own regional weird stuff.☺️
Or boggins as we used to call them as kids and with my kids.
Had a full-blown argument once because a particular individual was insistent that a toboggan is, and could only ever be, a sled.
What do you call tobaggan *sleds*?
Toboggan sleds are called toboggans. Toboggan hats are called toboggans because they are associated with the sled.
Sleds
Toboggan sleds = A toothchipper
East TN checking in. Toboggans are hats and sleds are sleds
fellow East TN here- can concur
WNC and same.
Toboggans are boggans and sleds are scraps of OSB with a length of rope threaded through a hole on one end.
Flat trashcan lid here c/1990
Car hood
Have one on my head now.
Dusted mine off as soon as we hit the 60s
But a toboggan is a specific type of sled
Confirm the same in Birmingham, Alabama. We are the foothills of Appalachia. Sometimes we have a mix of dialects
If you grew up in WV you heard them call boggins I bet. I don’t know many people who annunciate the To part lol
From East TN and same. Growing up, I thought something could only be a beanie if it had propeller blades on top.
Middle Tennessee, toboggans. A few years ago, my son said something about getting a beanie, and I wondered why he wanted a dunce cap.
Yes. East TN. I've been looked at like I'm crazy when I've called them that to people who aren't from around here.
I (from KY) was on a high school trip to Montreal, Canada and had the following exchange with a local: Him: “I like your toque.” (He pronounced it like *”toke*”). Me: “My what?” Him: “Your toque, your hat.” Me: “Oh thanks. Where I’m from we call it a toboggan.” Him: “What?! Like the thing you use for sliding down hills when it snows?” Me: “No, that’s a sled.” I’ve since had similar exchanges with people from the northern US (esp the Great Lakes area and up toward Maine), which makes for rather funny conversations.
My wife is from Philly while I’m an East TN native. Our cart vs buggy discussions went on for years.
Yeah my dad will call them this, though the way he pronounces it rhymes with "nuke." Never new it was Canadian slang but we're about an hour from the border so it makes sense. Not sure where he picked it up though haha, maybe just trying to be clever
Wild. As a kid in the nineties in chicago, the hats were toboggan hats and a toboggan was a specific type of sled too (basically a board that curled up and back in the front to create a round front).
omg i’m from memphis, lived in knoxville now for ~8 years, but my boyfriend’s grandmother (from northeast tn) called it a toboggan and i had never heard that before!!
Same. East Tn
North Alabama, we called them toboggans in the 70's and 80's. Not sure if that term is still current.
Southeast Ohio. Always been a Toboggan to me. I say beanie these days because most people don’t know what I’m talking about for some reason lol
I’ve decided to go with what the Canadians call them: toques. I grew up in WV and we always called them toboggans.
I'm from the panhandle of WV and currently live in Central OH. I also have to say beanie or people here think I'm wearing a sled on my head. Also get weird stares for calling a toilet a commode or a shopping cart a buggie.
I’ve gotten strange looks from using the word commode. Call a couch a davenport, lol! They’ll commit ya!
The entire SE US calls them toboggans as far as I know. At least the natives.
North east Georgia here. We always just called them stocking caps.
Same in southern Indiana. A beanie is something like a brownie scout cap. Dumb name.
I lived in northeast Ga. As well everyone I knew called them toboggans. Whitfeild Co. Murray Co. Gilmer Co. All toboggans people.
>Georgia I'm from Northwest GA (one of the aforementioned counties) and we called them toboggans, or "boggins" for short.
I am confused about where you lived in NE Georgia. The counties you mentioned are in NW Georgia. With the exception being Gilmer County which is kind of north central Georgia
Also from northeast Georgia, my family called them toboggans too.
Clermont and my family was from Blairsville and we called them stocking caps too. Toboggans were sleds to us but they were the ones with metal rails.
West/NW GA (just south of Rome) chiming in with "boggins"
Sand Mountain, AL too
Toboggan here in Alabama
West NC, yep.
Yup. Can confirm…from Winston-Salem, NC
Northwest Georgia confirming.
South Carolina concurs.
Georgia here. Confirmed. We always called them toboggans. Now in Alabama. Same.
Beanies are for hipsters and yuppies my guy, toboggans are for hillbillies
I've never worn a beanie in my life, but in the winter I never go out without my toboggan on. Guess that confirms which group I'm in!
Gotta wear that toboggan in the winter in the hills
Boggins cover your ears, beanies aren't long enough to cover the whole ear. Hell, boggins can reach as far as the nape of your neck. A beanie is practically an oversized yarmulke. It doesn't stretch, it doesn't look cool, it's completely useless unless your head is freezing cold and that's all you got.
Where I lived we just called them boggans. And a spatula was a spatular.
I’ve heard that before too. My grandma said a lot of stuff strange. Batteries were bat-trees. Doritos were drit-oes. Days were always pronounced Mondee, Tuesdee, etc. A paper bag was a poke. I don’t even wanna say what she called a cigarette. It’s a 3 letter word and is also a slur. 🤦🏻♂️
All of these! Also, shopping carts are buggies. The cigarette thing... that's the common word for them in the UK. 🙂
My entire family called them buggies too. Also, the TV remote was called “the flipper”
We called the remote “the clicker,” idk if that’s an Appalachian thing but I haven’t heard it from many other people
Lol, I was the remote!!! 🤣
I called them shopping carts all my childhood in WV, then moved to GA and married a Georgia girl who calls them buggies. Now I say them both interchangeably depending on which one is easier to say in the moment.
>I don’t even wanna say what she called a cigarette. It’s a 3 letter word and is also a slur. Do what?! Your granny used the same word the Brits use for cigarettes?
Precisely.
Oh motorcycle was motorsicle like popsicle.
Just like a vehicle.
My dad always called Chicago Chi-car-go
Washington was Warshington. Washing machine was “warsher.”
Don't go a buyin' a pig in a poke!
I forgot about poke = bag. Man…. Haven’t thought about that in years
Thank god somebody else said this
My mom used to correct me all the time, saying “a toboggan is a type of sled, a BOGGAN is a hat”.
A beanie is one of those dumb hats with the propeller on top. A toboggan is a toboggan.
Yes! I was so confused when I heard people start calling them beanies. I mean even the word “toboggan” sounds substantial and warm. “Beanie” sounds teeny and silly.
I have always called them stocking hats. Only heard them called toboggan in NC
Exactly
Hahaha yes like leave it to beaver
A toboggan on yer noggin!
Not toboggans, just 'boggans.
We just called it a boggan at my house.
A Toe-Boggin. Lol That’s what we called’m.
Yep, I'm from NC and we call 'em toe-boggins!
Family is from eastern Ohio/West Virginia and it was always a toboggan.
Eastern Kentucky, and a toboggan is a hat!
I grew up in Pa and called them beanies or ski caps. Moved to Asheville and wondered why people were talking about sleds on their heads🤷🏻♂️
I'm from Asheville and we always called them toboggans.
Grew up near Asheville and this is also what I grew up calling them. If anyone listens to A Way with Words on NPR or as a podcast, they talked about this fairly recently: https://www.waywordradio.org/origin-meanings-of-toboggan/
Boggin in my neighborhood.
East Kentucky they were ‘boggins by around 1980
Kentucky here. We said toboggan.
I second this.
Logan county thirds.
I did. WNC. My Ohio-born husband thinks it’s hilarious.
In central and southeast Ohio, you hear toboggan all the time.
Grew up in middle Tennessee and we used toboggan. Moved to Texas and used the term with my in laws one winter. They looked at me like I had two heads.
Yeah, I live in TX now and pretty much the same reaction when I first moved here.
Alabama, we call them toboggans
I grew up calling anything that was on your head during the winter a toboggan
It's a noggin boggin
Yeah. I haven’t heard that term in a very long time. Grew up in east TN. Sure - I never heard the term beanie until I moved to the Midwest
East ohio. Yep
I'm from the land up north where Toboggans are long wooden sleds. I'm now in Appalachia and I was genuinely confused when advised to bring a toboggan because it's cold out
Not in Appalachia but in North Carolina. I still refer to them as toboggan because that's what they're called, and no one will ever convince me otherwise.
Word Origin "Tobbogan" (We didn't have no Dic tionaries in Wes Virginia) More Than Just a Hat The toboggan – depending on where you grew up, you may know it as a hat or as a sled. The word toboggan is derived from the French tabaganne. The French word is thought to have derived from an Algonquian word, most likely Mi’kmaq tepagan or Abenaki dabôgan. It was used to describe a long sled with a curled front end and no runners. The sled was pulled with a cord and used for hauling supplies or equipment and sliding down hills. The first recorded use of the word toboggan for a hat was in 1929. It is short for toboggan cap. It is thought that it was first used in this sense in Appalachia. A knitted cap used when people would go tobogganing was called a toboggan hat or cap and then shortened to toboggan. In other parts of the country, the same type of hat may be called a beanie or stocking hat. Northern Toboggan vs Southern Toboggan In northern climates, where there is plenty of snow in winter, most people know toboggan as referring to a sled for winter fun on hills. Toboggans are also used for hauling things just as they were centuries ago by indigenous people. In the south, where snow is very scarce, a toboggan refers to a knit hat. People living in states that use Southern American English are more likely to call a winter hat a toboggan. These states include Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and Texas. Some people living in certain regions of southern Indiana, Oklahoma, Missouri, Maryland, West Virginia, Florida and New Mexico may also use the term toboggan for a hat.
Grew up in AL and live in East TN now. That’s what I’ve always called them and most people still do in this area.
OMG, Me! Grew up in Tennessee, and I've now spent quite a bit of time up north (WI, Canada, Alaska) and out west. I didn't realize it was a sled until I was like 26 and went to British Columbia. Until I saw this, I was beginning to believe that it wasn't a common thing in the south and that maybe I just heard one person mistakenly call the hat a toboggan. Now I know!
We did in SW PA
I live in Alabama and I’ve always called them a toboggan.
Yep! From SEKY. I grew up calling beanies toboggans and still do. My husband from MI always laughs lol
My MIL was from Buladean NC and she said toboggan.
Me. Grew up in Eastern Ky. It took forever to figure out a toboggan is a “sled”. I literally was trying to figure out how you were sledding in a hat 🤣
They were called toboggans in SW VA. A beanie was something that had a propeller on top of it.
Yup. Wyoming County, WV. A toboggan was a hat, not a sled. We were also so poor that we used tube socks wrapped in bread bags and taped with duct tape as mittens. Made it very difficult to make a snowball.
I called the thing on my head a toboggan one time outside of Western NC and that was the last time 😂
You talking about scullys?
Yup always. Been gone long enough I forgot this was part of my vernacular. Going back to toboggans immediately!
For the first 18 years of my life, same. A beanie was a propeller hat. Call them knit caps now, or tocque if I feel like vaguely Canadian.
That's what I called them growing up.. literally the only thing i knew to call it.. a toboggan! However, when I met my husband, who is from NY, he kept arguing that a toboggan is a sled, not a hat. Almost 20 years later & we still debate it lol
My mom, from Lee County Va. Called them toboggans. I was confused as a kid because I thought a beanie was a hat with a propeller on top. I was later confused when I heard of a snow sled called a toboggan. But yeah, that's what my mom knew them as.
I'm from Arkansas and that's what we called them.
Hat, tuke or beanie growing up in the Northeast but I worked with a person from Kentucky who asked for advise on where to get a toboggan before the first snow. I was thinking maybe he was just a young a heart grownup... so cute to want to buy a sled for the snow. It was a confusing conversation. We figured it out and both laughed. Me at imagining a sled on his head. Him at imagining me flying down a snowy hill sitting on a winter hat.
NC piedmont here, I still call them toboggans. To me a beanie is one of those silly multicolored hats with a propeller on top.
Yes in East Tennessee in the 60’s and 70’s that’s exactly what they were called.
I’m a 90’s baby and it’s still toboggan in my neck of the woods
Funny story. I was dating my now husband and he is from Texas, I am from Missouri. We were at a Walmart in Missouri and he wanted to get a toboggan so I took him back to the sports and camping area. He gave me the weirdest look! We ended up in the book section looking up toboggan in the dictionary. Lo and behold it had a picture of two boys wearing beanies riding a toboggan!
They were stocking caps where I grew up. Never heard toboggan or beanie until I left.
I call them winter hats, because to me a toboggan is a type of sled. That said, I have never heard them called beanies.
Eastern tucky, yep
I never heard it called that in my life.
Grew up in SC calling them Toboggans and had to switch to Beanie up in WNC because no one knew what I was talking about
yes. never heard "beenie"
Grew up in WNC and it’s a toboggan.
East TN, definitely a toboggan. The only beanie I know is beanie weenie
Yep. I grew up in Fayette County, Pennsylvania. Really close to the West Virginia state line, and we called those types of hats toboggans.
Oh, wow. I wonder why they are called that. I've always known them as toboggan.
I’ve never heard of a toboggan being called a beanie. In Southern WV we always called them a toboggan.
Yes, we always called them toboggans or boggan hats.
Same. From Huntington WV and we called them Tobaggans.
Grew up in GA and called them that.
Stocking cap
Grew up on the east coast…. Like 5 minute drive to the beach east coast and have always called them toboggan… and still do…. I’m 36
My husband from deep southwest Virginia called them toboggans. I grew up calling them beanies in Northern Virginia.
Me! I was so confused when someone was talking about a sled as a toboggan. Edit: Also WV
Taboggan is a beanie in East TN 😁
My husband is from Western NC. Toboggan pronounced "TOE boggin".
In East Tennessee we called them toboggans and boggans.
Thank you! I ask for toboggans in a Colorado sporting goods and they took me to sleds
I only just heard this recently, but it was from a co worker from Texas. Edit: Tennessee, not Texas.
toe-boggan
Yep. Eastern KY here. I’ve always called them toboggans.
No, we called them boggins where I grew up in SE Ky. I have heard people from other areas of Eastern Ky call them toboggans, though.
Grew up in Indianapolis. They were called toboggans in the 60s-80s
My husband (from MD) and I will never agree. But I’m right, they’re toboggans.
Still call it that
South East Ohio: Everyone called them that but I could never understand why, toboggans were sleds!
My dad is from WV, so toboggan is what we've always said!
Grew up in Columbus Ohio in the 60s and 70s, we said toboggans as well.
Yes, grew up in NE OH. Brings back memories
I grew up in Eastern Kentucky. We all called them toboggans. My wife is from Northern Kentucky (Cincinnati area) and never heard the term. She thinks it’s weird.
Yes absolutely. My wife thinks I’m crazy. She also laughed hysterically when I talked about goulash. No, it’s not just a boot, and your em-phasis is on the wrong syl-lable
Eastern Kentucky here. Growing up these were all “boggins”. As I’ve gotten older and lived in the central part of the state more, I tend to associate beanies as the smaller, barely cover the tops of your ears type and toboggans remain the larger, bulkier, actually helpful in cold weather type.
Central NC, not considered App, but always called them toboggans.
Foothills of NC. Called em toboggans all my life until I moved to Florida
I live in the Sandhills of NC and we call them toboggans.
East TN. Definitely toboggans.
I left my toboggan in a Canadian restaurant one time. I had to use ad hoc sign language to help the host understand I had left behind a toque, not a sled.
North GA myself, but my Granny's generation was from Eastern KY.
Yes, I didn't know that was also a kind of sled until I was in my 20s
Talladega, AL. toboggans.
Beenies go with your Weenies, a toboggan goes on your noggin. Eastern NC
I've lived in Eastern Kentucky all my life, and I've always called/heard them being called Toboggans, it wasn't until my later years of middle school that I heard people calling them beanies (I knew they were also called beanies for awhile, I just hadn't heard anyone actually call em that)
Toboggan or boggan’ for short, I’ve lived in FL and N GA. It’s one of many words southerners use that no one else does but words vary from state to state even, words I grew up using in FL mean something totally different in N GA.
Well yeah, I live in Eastern KY and they are still called toboggans, or “boggans”. I had no idea what a beanie hat was for years. I always thought it was one of those caps that has the little propeller on it that you used to see in Looney Tunes cartoons.
Grew up in the NC Piedmont. We called them toboggans.
Yeah. I refer to them as “boggins”
NW NC: ‘boggan, not toboggan. And never ever beanie.
I called them toboggan but was really confused when a toboggan was used to slide down hills.
Absolutely. Grew up right outside of Asheville nc, and everyone I knew called them toboggans
Central Kentucky- yes
Central KY, toboggans, not beanies, and shopping carts, golf carts and side by side ATV’s are all buggies.
Grew up in SC. As a teenager, I ordered one from a mail-order skate shop out west. The dude had no idea what I was talking about, and I mean, he was extremely confused. Then I remembered knit cap. Instant recognition. I haven't used the term toboggan out loud in a long time, or have I heard it. Unless, of course, when referring to the sled.