toboggan

toboggan
I. noun Etymology: Canadian French tobogan, of Algonquian origin; akin to Micmac tobâgun drag made of skin Date: circa 1820 1. a long flat-bottomed light sled made usually of thin boards curved up at one end with usually low handrails at the sides 2. a downward course or a sharp decline 3. chiefly Southern & Midland stocking cap II. intransitive verb Date: 1846 1. to coast on or as if on a toboggan 2. to decline suddenly and sharply • tobogganer nountobogganist noun

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  • toboggan — (n.) long, flat bottomed sled, 1829, from Canadian Fr. tabagane, from Algonquian (probably Micmac) tobakun a sled. The verb is recorded from 1846. As American English colloquial for a type of long woolen cap, it is recorded from 1929 (earlier… …   Etymology dictionary

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  • Toboggan — To*bog gan, n. [Corruption of American Indian odabagan a sled.] A kind of sledge made of pliable board, turned up at one or both ends, used for coasting down hills or prepared inclined planes; also, a sleigh or sledge, to be drawn by dogs, or by… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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