What do you call the implement that holds hair in a ponytail?

[Monkey Island Academy]

Hair Thingy.

[historically accurate]

We usually call them "hair foofies" (especially if they're decorative), but occasionally rubber bands.

[Maus]

More often we call them hair ties, sometimes hair thing. My grandma called them gum-bands.

 

Interesting. Was your grandma of German descent? (The German word is "Gummi-band.")

[Miselainia]

My mil (who lives with us) has my kids calling it a "george."

[Marylou]

Ponytailer

[Ginevra]

My mil (who lives with us) has my kids calling it a "george."

 

My kids call soap bubbles "george." I don't know if that comes from a movie or it's their own invention, but if they're washing dishes and there's a big mitt of bubbles, they call it a "george."

[mom2denj]

We call everything a hairbow. It doesn't matter what it is, it is a hairbow. =)

[Jeannie in NJ]

hair bob

[gaillardia]

Hair Thingy.

:iagree:They will not think highly of us for using the word "thingy," but that is what we call it too, "hair thingy.":lol::lol:

[sassenach]

Rubber Band

 

:iagree:

 

Although I occasionally use hairband. Scrunchies are the things with material around them.

[PentecostalMom]

Ponytail holder.

:iagree:

[Melinda S in TX]

ponytails

[Mommy to monkeys]

that's the only thing I call them and I'm surprised the result is so low!

[bookfiend]

Hair bow, which is odd since it is actually a clamp. I twist and clamp - no more ponytails.

[justasque]

"Piggy"

 

Everyone in my neighborhood growing up used this term. As in, "Do you have a piggy I can borrow?"

[Mynyel]

I voted something else only because I call it a hair tie sometimes and a pony tail holder other times. Just depends. :)

[Amy in NH]

"hair band"... makes me think of 80s rockers. :tongue_smilie:

 

:iagree:

[Delighted3]

Ponytail holder here.

[Wendi]

:lol::lol: When my girls were little I called them woogies. As in 'go get a ponytail woogie." Then I realized they thought that was what those things were really called and I was appalled. Acckk

 

Of course when my first girl was 2 she thought ice cream was called 'some', because I had given it to her and said. "would you like some?' Later she would lean on the fridge and pat it and say some...some..some.

 

It is a miracle they learned english at all.

:lol:

 

The first thing my ds saw on TV was a Pooh video. (He was a toddler.) He apparently thought that "Pooh" was what the TV was called. Only he called it "puh" (short u sound). So for the longest time, he would point at a TV and say, "Puh!", no matter what show was on.

 

Wendi

[Wendi]

When I was growing up, we only used those coated elastic things; we called them "ponytail holders". Now, though, people seem more likely to use a fabric one; I call those "scrunchies".

 

Wendi

[fhjmom]

I voted" something else" b/c we usually say" pony", but It is short for" ponytail-holder". I just never say the whole thing. Scrunchies are the fabric covered ones from the '80's..

[Thea]

We call it the highly technical term--the hair thingy.

[WeeBeaks]

"Hair pretty" - my oldest DD is 3 years old.

[Classical Country Mama]

My Spanish-speaking sister, who moved to Central America, married a local and is raising two long-haired girls, calls it a "cola." Somehow that's what we call it now too, although dh takes great delight in sending dd to me with a can of Coke when I ask her to bring me one. (He's done this countless times and giggles like a kid every.single.time.)

 

I'm shocked, just shocked, that no one calls them what we do. :D

[nukeswife]

I almost put "Hair Thingy" on the poll, because I say that a lot. I also say "Hair Do-Dad," for the same reason as DER. But so far, "Pony-tailer" is the cutest thing any of you have mentioned!

 

My mother called them "Hair Hookers." :tongue_smilie: DD14 said, "That sounds...not so nice, like a hair dresser gone wrong." :lol:

 

I almost spit out my drink on my brand new laptop. Hair Hooker, that's a classic.

 

I call them ponytail holders.

 

ETA: On a side note when my oldest was younger we didn't know he had ear issues and until he was almost two he called me Uma, my dh Wawa, and our dog Rumbles was OO-Buh Da-yuh. But every bird no matter what kids, ostrich to hummingbird was a Bach Bach. Then again he also carried around a beany baby goose with him everywhere from 18 months to 3 years old.

Edited July 7, 2011 by nukeswife

[ChemMommy]

Pony-O

[amyable]

Another vote for "hair thingy"! :lol:

 

Mostly because I can never think of what anything is called. It's rubbing off on my 3yo son. He asked me, "Can you get me the thing?" I asked what thing, and he said, "The thingy thing!"

 

Technically I would call it a ponytail holder. If I could ever pull that out of my brain when I need it.

[clarkacademy]

hair bow, not sure when that started but that is what they are now

[swellmomma]

With my oldest I call it a pony tail holder but with dd3 we call them her ponies or pretties

[Joyofsixreboot]

We just call it a pony holder.

[Snickerdoodle]

Colita

[Classical Country Mama]

Colita

 

:hurray:

 

I'm not alone!

[Snickerdoodle]

I thought I was the only one. Phew. :D

[Teachin'Mine]

I voted pony-tail holder, but I actually just call it a pony-tail. It's quicker that way.

 

BTW, where do these things go? They disappear almost as soon as I buy a new pack. :glare:

 

They disappear here too and probably go to the same place as new pens, new mechanical pencils, bag clips, matching socks ...

 

We call them hair bands or hair thingys.

[TrixieB]

Pony holder. :D

That's what we call it.

[LunaLee]

Rubber Band

 

this.

[GardenTenders/Kim]

pony tail holder or rubber band.... :D

[stripe]

Rubber band. Unless it's a scrunchie or hair clip or some such.

[kimnc]

The elastic things I call pony tail holders, or scruchies if they are fabric.

The catchall phrase for anything to hold your hair back here is "hair toys".

[TheCoffeeChick]

Pony. Which is weird, when I think of it. I'm always telling dd, "Go get the brush and a pony for your hair."

 

Heehee ... now I'm thinking of her bringing me a small horse instead of a rubberband! :lol:

[Sputterduck]

It's not a "hair scrunchie". It's a "scrunchy". So I picked other.

[Sahamamama]

:lol::lol: When my girls were little I called them woogies. As in 'go get a ponytail woogie." Then I realized they thought that was what those things were really called and I was appalled. Acckk

 

Of course when my first girl was 2 she thought ice cream was called 'some', because I had given it to her and said. "would you like some?' Later she would lean on the fridge and pat it and say some...some..some.

 

It is a miracle they learned english at all.

:lol:

 

 

This made my day. Thank you for posting these little stories. I love them.

 

Woogies.

 

Some.

 

:001_smile: I am happy now, and it was a rough day.

[newbie]

rubber band

 

And what is funny when we went to the hairdresser in Pittsburgh its a gumband, or gumbyand. My dd could not understand a word she was saying.

[Peela]

A Hair Lacky. (Lacky being short for elastic- we call elastic bands, lacky bands).

[Amber in AUS]

We say hair lackey, lackey or scrunchy for the fancy ones.

[Miss Peregrine]

Pony. Which is weird, when I think of it. I'm always telling dd, "Go get the brush and a pony for your hair."

 

Heehee ... now I'm thinking of her bringing me a small horse instead of a rubberband! :lol:

 

 

 

We call it a "pony" here, too.

[Doubleblessings]

I call them doodas (I got it from my best friend in high school), but DD sometimes reverses it and calls them dadoos.

[Ginevra]

We say hair lackey, lackey or scrunchy for the fancy ones.

 

Clearly that's the Aussie term!

[eternalknot]

I voted "hair band" because that was closest, but that makes me think of 80s rockers. :tongue_smilie:

 

:iagree: ... and :lol:

 

We call them rubber bands. The ones we use, however, aren't rubber material. Go figure LOL.

[Evergreen State Sue]

I voted hair band, but after thinking about it, I call it a "pony tail band". I guess that would be choice other.