toboggan
pronunciation
How to pronounce toboggan in British English:
UK [təˈbɒgən]
How to pronounce toboggan in American English:
US [təˈbɑgən]
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- Noun:
- a long narrow sled without runners; boards curve upward in front
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- Verb:
- move along on a luge or toboggan
Word Origin
- toboggan (n.)
- "long, flat-bottomed sled," 1829, from Canadian French tabagane, from an Algonquian language, such as Maleseet /thapaken/. The verb is recorded from 1846. As American English colloquial for a type of long woolen cap, it is recorded from 1929 (earlier toboggan cap, 1928), presumably because one wore such a cap while tobogganing.
Example
- 1. I enjoy winter the most because I can toboggan !
- 2. And the image of a man being slurped on a moving toboggan by a pesky dog is too cartoonishly good to be true - unless the reader realizes how much universal lab behavior is immortalized here .
- 3. Local tourists prefer either the convenience of the renovated section at badaling , near beijing , gimmicks such as the toboggan chute at mutianyu or , more sensibly in the dead of winter , to stay indoors .
- 4. One who rides a sled or toboggan .