I have always called a light top with a full zipper to be a jacket, however the people I’m surrounded by insist on calling it a sweatshirt. I’m prepared to be wrong, just wondering if I’m the only one.

  • @[email protected]English
    5•5 months ago

    That particular thing is a hoodie. Without the hood it’s a jacket. Without a zip (as in, it goes over your head to put it on) it’s a jumper. I think sweatshirt is an American word

    • @[email protected]English
      3•5 months ago

      Sounds like it!

      https://www.oed.com/dictionary/sweatshirt_n?tl=true

      The earliest known use of the noun sweatshirt is in the 1920s.

      OED’s earliest evidence for sweatshirt is from 1929, in Sears, Roebuck Catalogue.

      EDIT: I never really thought about the word until now, realized that it’s a portmanteau of “sweater” and “shirt”.

    • VaultBoyNewVegas
      3•5 months ago

      I just call a hoodie without a zipper a pullover hoodie.

      • @[email protected]English
        1•5 months ago

        Ah yeah, I mean that without a hood and zip it’s a jumper. With a hood and no zip it’s a hoodie