Other forms: beanies
A beanie is a soft close-fitting knitted hat. Pull on a beanie, a woollen beanie, wear a beanie indoors.
It has no brim and no structure, which is what separates it from a cap. In Britain the older word is a woolly hat, and beanie arrived from America. It sits above the ears or is pulled down over them, and the choice is a whole matter of style.
1nounbeanieA soft close-fitting knitted hat.
“He pulled his woolly beanie down over his ears to keep out the cold.”
beanie is a hat.
Middle English
bene
English
bean
English, today
beanie
From bean + -ie. bean comes from Middle English bene. From Middle English bene, from Old English bēan, from Proto-West Germanic baunu, from Proto-Germanic baunō (“bean”), from Proto-Indo-European bʰabʰ- (“bean”). Cognate with Scots bene,bein (“bean”), frr buan, stq Boone, West Frisian bean,beanne, Dutch boon, German Bohne, lb Boun, Danish bønne, Faroese bøn,bøna, Icelandic baun, Norwegian Bokmål bønne, Norwegian Nynorsk bauna,baune,bogna,bønne, Swedish böna, Irish pónaire, gv poanrey, Scottish Gaelic pònair, Latin faba, Russian боб, Serbo-Croatian bȍb//бо̏б. a doublet of fava.
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