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Is it a sweatshirt or a jacket? (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 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".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 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