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▪ I. toboggan, n.|təˈbɒgən|
Also tabagane, ta-, tobognay, tarbog(g)in, treboggin, tobogin, -en, toboggen, tobaugan, tobogan, tabougin, tabogan.
[Adaptation of a Canadian Indian name of a sleigh or sledge; given in French spelling tabaganne by Le Clercq Nouvelle Relation de la Gaspesie, 1691, p. 70 (J. Platt in N. & Q. 9th Ser. XII. 467). The nearest Indian forms cited are Micmac (Lower Canada, New Brunsw., Nova Scotia) tobâkun (toˈbaːkən) (Rand Micmac Dict. 1888), and Abnaki (Quebec and Maine) udãbãgan (Trumbull). Other allied Algonquian langs. have, Montaignais utapan, Cree otâbânâsk (Lacombe), Odjibwa odaban-ak: cf. pung n.2]
1. Originally, a light sledge consisting of a thin strip of wood turned up in front, used by the Canadian Indians for transport over snow; now, a similar vehicle, sometimes with low runners, used in the sport of coasting (esp. down prepared slopes of snow or ice).
1829G. Head Forest Scenes N. Amer. 64 After leaving Fredericton there was no town nor village at which the required articles could be procured: namely, a couple of tobogins, a tobogin bag, a canteen..two pairs of snow shoes. 1846G. Warburton Hochelaga I. 122 One of the great amusements..is, to climb up to the top of this cone, and slide down again on a tarboggin. 1850S. D. Huyghue in Bentley's Misc. XXVII. 152 Snow-shoes, mocassins, and tobaugans, for the use of the men. 1861J. Leech Pict. Life & Char. 78 (Punch Office publ.) Militaire recalls his Canadian experiences, builds a treboggin. 1863H. Y. Hind Labrador I. 280 The tabognay is a little sledge upon which people in winter amuse themselves in descending hills covered with snow. 1865P. B. St. John Snow Ship xv. 106 These tarbogins, or tabougins, as they are indifferently called, are small sleighs drawn by hand over the snow. 1874J. A. Symonds Sk. Italy & Greece (1898) I. i. 26 The little hand-sledge..which the English have christened by the Canadian term ‘toboggan’. 1880Daily Tel. 18 Feb., The ‘toboggin’ is a wooden car..which is curled up at the lower extremity, or prow, so as to constitute a seat holding a couple of sitters. 1885New Bk. Sports 239 The steersman..gives the tobogan a start, and away they go down the hill. 1891Month LXXIII. 24 Travelling with dogs and toboggans during winter.
2. a. [f. next.] The practice or sport of tobogganing.
1879Birmingham Weekly Post 8 Feb. 1/4 We have heard of a new sport called toboggen, brought from Canada and adopted here when the ground is hilly enough by country house parties. 1896R. S. S. Baden-Powell Matabele Campaign i, Madeira... Scramble up on horses to the convent, up the long, steep, cobbled roads, and the grand toboggan down again in sliding cars.
b. U.S. slang. A rapid decline, a progression towards disaster. Usu. in phr. on the toboggan.
1910E. A. Walcott Open Door xii. 153 Do you remember the time I got Conny Mulnix off, when the police had him on the toboggan for the Kinsley affair? 1947Christian Cent. 20 Aug. 999/1 The United States is sliding down the toboggan with 75 per cent of the south a negroid population. 1950J. Dempsey Championship Fighting 197 A veteran of thirty or thirty-one who is on the ‘toboggan’. 1978J. A. Michener Chesapeake 853 My daughter Clara's a little younger than you. For three years she's been on one hell of a toboggan.
3. U.S. A long woollen cap. Cf. toboggan-cap.
1929Amer. Speech V. 152 Toboggan, a woolen cap. ‘Take off your toboggan.’ 1948Pacific Spectator Winter 83 He had on faded overalls with new blue patches on the knees, and a sweater under the overalls, and a knitted blue toboggan on his head, against the cold. 1975Raleigh (N. Carolina) News & Observer 6 Jan. 24/4 He [sc. a burglar] was wearing a red toboggan and tight pants, police said.
4. attrib. and Comb., as toboggan-bag, toboggan-cap, toboggan-race, toboggan-sleigh, etc.; toboggan-slide, a steep incline for tobogganing, also called toboggan-chute, -run, or -shoot; also applied to an inclined series of rollers down which toboggans run.
1829G. Head Forest Scenes N. Amer. 64 The tobogin bag [for luggage] when full is..laced tightly on the machine by means of a cord. 1881Standard 22 Jan. 5/1 The Canadian..considers the snowy season the period of enjoyment. It is the sleigh-driving, the ‘coasting’, and the ‘taboggan season’. 1884Brandon (Manitoba) Blade 21 Feb. 9/2 The several Toboggan Slides were illuminated every evening. 1887O. W. Holmes 100 Days in Europe 150 Like what..would be a pretty steep toboggan slide. 1890Silverton (Colorado) Miner 1 Mar. 3/2 During the storm, the big tree on Anvil, which was generally known as the starting point for snow shoers and the toboggan club, was blown down. 1902Sears, Roebuck Catal. 1159/3 Toboggan Caps or Toques. 1902A. C. Laut Story of Trapper xiv. 196 Wrapping her husband in robes on the long toboggan sleigh, the squaw placed her younger child beside him and with the other began tramping through the forest drawing the sleigh behind. 1903Daily Chron. 4 Feb. 6/1 He gets ready for the toboggan club's train, which leaves Davos for the village of Wolfgang every morning. 1904Times 25 Aug. 7/5 The Royal party returned at noon in toboggan basket sleighs. 1907C. Hill-Tout Brit. N. Amer., Far West v. 93 A toboggan-shaped basket with an opening near its curved end. 1913W. P. Eaton Barn Doors & Byways 223 One road runs along the ridge, the other plunges over it and crosses the intervale like the smooth, straight drop of a great toboggan chute. 1928Chicago Tribune 11 June 10/5 Women and children in winter wore toboggan caps which wrapped two or three times around the neck and hung about a yard down the back. 1936J. H. Street Look Away! xiii. 91 Tiller wore a faded green coat, woolen stockings, and a toboggan cap. 1964Globe & Mail (Toronto) 15 Dec. 32/3 Winter fun-seekers will take to..two new toboggan chutes.
▪ II. toˈboggan, v.
[f. prec. n.]
intr. To ride on a toboggan or sleigh; esp. to ‘coast’ or slide down a snowy (or other) slope on a toboggan. Hence toˈbogganing vbl. n.
1846E. Warburton Hochelaga i. v. 68 They tarbogginned, slid, and trudged about merrily in the deep dry snow. 1849J. E. Alexander L'Acadie I. 186 An amusement of which Canadian boys, and sometimes ladies too, are passionately fond..is called ‘toboggoning’. 1856I. L. Bird Englishwom. in Amer. 264 With balls, and moose-hunting, and sleigh-driving, and ‘tarboggining’. 1863H. Y. Hind Labrador I. xvii. 280, I didn't want to break the canoe, so I sat down and slid as if I was tabognaying. 1874Symonds Sk. Italy & Greece (1898) I. i. 27 On a run selected for convenience..tobogganing is a very Bohemian amusement. 1887Marchioness Dufferin Viceregal Life India 15 Sept., The children got three tin baths..and began to toboggan down the grassy slopes in them. |