toboggann.

Brit.

/təˈbɒɡ(ə)n/, U.S.

/təˈbɑɡən/, Canadian English

/təˈbɒɡən/

Forms: 1800s taboggan, 1800s tabognay, 1800s tarboggin, 1800s tarbogin, 1800s tobaggan, 1800s tobaugan, 1800s toboggen, 1800s toboggin, 1800s toboggon, 1800s tobogin, 1800s traboggin, 1800s treboggin, 1800s– tobogan, 1800s– toboggan.

Origin: Perhaps of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Maliseet-Passamaquoddy. Perhaps partly a borrowing from Micmac. Etymons: Maliseet-Passamaquoddy ’tapakon, Micmac tapaqn.

Etymology: < Maliseet-Passamaquoddy ’tapakon sled, toboggan (now more generally ‘vehicle’), and perhaps also its cognate Micmac †tapaqn toboggan, sled, sleigh, vehicle (now tepaqn ), further cognate with e.g. Western Abenaki odôbôgan toboggan, Eastern Abenaki wətάpαkan toboggan, sled, sleigh (see Tom Pung n.), probably via North American French toboggan, †tobogane (although this is apparently not attested in the early 19th cent.: 1691 as tabaganne in an isolated attestation, subsequently from 1881).In sense 2 after toboggan v.; compare earlier tobogganing n. at toboggan v. Derivatives.

1. A light sledge which curves upwards and backwards at the front, and has either a flat bottom or runners.Originally in Canadian contexts (see etymology).

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicle moving on runners > [noun]

car1488

harrow15..

trail1570

sladea1585

slidec1692

carriole1761

carryall1797

trail-cart1803

jumper1823

toboggan1829

konaki1914

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > tobogganing > [noun] > toboggan or luge

toboggan1829

bobsleigh1841

bob1856

coaster1869

bobsled1886

bobsleigh1894

luge1905

boblet1914

saucer sled1951

skeleton bob1954

1829 G. 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.

1879 J. A. Symonds Sketches Italy & Greece (ed. 2) 295 The little hand-sledge..which the English have christened by the Canadian term ‘toboggan’.

1885 New Bk. Sports 239 The steersman..gives the tobogan a start, and away they go down the hill.

1891 Month Sept. 24 Travelling with dogs and toboggans during winter.

1930 Oxf. Ann. Girls 135/2 They waved and shouted as the toboggan flashed by at top speed and was lost to sight behind a ridge of snow.

1940 Boys' Life Dec. 8 Swooping down-hill on a toboggan is one of winter's great thrills.

2004 New Yorker 12 Jan. 60/2 We were sitting on the toboggan, Tim in front, me in back.

2011 Times 24 Sept. (Travel section) 36 (advt.) Action packed days are spent trying out winter activities; learn how to snow shoe, ride toboggans and try ice skating.

†2. The activity of tobogganing. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > tobogganing > [noun]

hurley-hacket1529

coasting1775

tobogganing1849

toboggan1870

bobsledding1880

bobsleighing1885

bobbing1888

luging1907

bobsleigh1911

bobsled1932

luge1966

1870 Graphic 16 Apr. 463/3 Among the varied amusements which Canada affords during the cold weather, one of the most delightful is that of Toboggin.

1879 Birmingham 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.

3. U.S. and Australian colloquial. A rapid decline, a progression towards disaster. Usually in on the toboggan.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > adversity > [noun] > fall from prosperous or thriving condition > rapid

downslide1889

toboggan1889

1889 World (N.Y.) 7 Sept. 7/6 He saw yesterday's game slip through the fingers of his players, and felt himself sliding over the edge of another incipient toboggan.

1910 E. 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?

1927 Amer. Mercury Feb. 223/1 One of them with twelve years' swell practice in New York till he hit the toboggan.

1947 Truth (Sydney) 6 July 64 (headline) British racing is on the toboggan.

1978 J. 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.

2013 @essentialideas 27 Nov. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) [In response to Happy Thanksgiving all. Busy teaching young generation it's full meaning.] When the world's top media person cannot spell, society is on the toboggan. It's its, not it's.

4. U.S. regional (southern and Midwest). A knit hat, originally one with a long, tapered end; = toboggan cap n. at Compounds 2.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > cap > types of > made from specific material > woollen

Scottish cap1553

blue bonnet1568

blue capa1586

Scotch cap1591

statute cap1598

Monmouth1638

Scotch bonnet1641

Highland bonnet1724

Welsh wig1797

scone1820

glengarry1841

beret1850

Balmoral1857

tam-o'-shanter1884

toboggan cap1886

tammy1894

tam1895

toboggan1907

tam1972

1907 Weekly Sentinel (Fort Wayne, Indiana) 24 Apr. If an infant has been wearing a woolen toboggan this winter or a fleece lined cap of any kind, it can now be changed on a warm day to a Swiss bonnet.

1948 Pacific 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.

1975 Raleigh (N. Carolina) News & Observer 6 Jan. 24/4 He [sc. a burglar] was wearing a red toboggan and tight pants, police said.

2015 Charleston (W. Va.) Gaz.-Mail (Nexis) 28 July 8 a Vanpelt, 25, wore a toboggan and a black bandanna covering her face.

Compounds

C1.

a. General attributive, as toboggan bag, toboggan ride, toboggan sleigh, etc.

ΚΠ

1829 G. Head Forest Scenes N. Amer. 64 The tobogin bag when full is..laced tightly on the machine by means of a cord.

1881 Standard 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’.

1890 Silverton (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.

1902 A. 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.

2017 Peterborough (Ont.) Examiner (Nexis) 15 July a1 A video of Alkhalaf and her kids enjoying their first toboggan ride on Armour Hill was posted to YouTube.

b. attributive. Designating a steep, slippery incline for tobogganing, as toboggan course, toboggan chute, toboggan run, toboggan slide.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > tobogganing > [noun] > slope or run

coast1775

bob1856

toboggan1878

toboggan slide1878

run1879

chute1884

ice run1900

piste1917

1878 Cincinnati Commerc. Tribune 25 Nov. 2/2 In the rear of the house are the stables, the gas house, the curling and skating rinks and the famous toboggan slides.

1887 Evening Jrnl. (Muscatine, Iowa) 23 Mar. The man who loses his footing on a tobogan chute generally becomes a backslider.

1964 N.Y. Times 24 Jan. 33/1 Norman Barkley, a British sledder, flew off the treacherous toboggan course and broke his left arm.

1994 P. Laverdure in W. Klempa Burning Bush & Few Acres of Snow v. 89 The Alliance Presbyterians fought against the laws forcing Toronto municipal workers to work at toboggan slides on Sunday.

2009 Times 7 Feb. (Travel section) 54/1 This is no ordinary downhill slide. This is Big Pintenfritz, the world's longest toboggan run.

C2.

toboggan cap n. U.S. regional (southernand Midwest) a knit hat, originally one with a long, tapered end.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > cap > types of > made from specific material > woollen

Scottish cap1553

blue bonnet1568

blue capa1586

Scotch cap1591

statute cap1598

Monmouth1638

Scotch bonnet1641

Highland bonnet1724

Welsh wig1797

scone1820

glengarry1841

beret1850

Balmoral1857

tam-o'-shanter1884

toboggan cap1886

tammy1894

tam1895

toboggan1907

tam1972

1886 Elkhart (Indiana) Sentinel 20 Nov. Toboggen caps are all the rage.

1928 Chicago 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.

1936 J. H. Street Look Away! xiii. 91 Tiller wore a faded green coat, woolen stockings, and a toboggan cap.

2008 Southwest Farm Press (U.S.) (Nexis) 12 Feb. I have two coats and a toboggan cap in my truck.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

tobogganv.

Brit.

/təˈbɒɡ(ə)n/, U.S.

/təˈbɑɡən/

Forms: see toboggan n.

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: toboggan n.

Etymology: < toboggan n.

a. intransitive. To ride down a slope on a sleigh or toboggan. In extended use: to ride in or on something as if on a toboggan.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > tobogganing > toboggan [verb (intransitive)]

coast1836

toboggan1846

bob1880

bobsled1880

bobsleigh1907

luge1907

1846 G. Warburton Hochelaga I. v. 123 They tarbogginned, slid, and trudged about merrily in the deep dry snow.

1887 Lady Dufferin Jrnl. 15 Oct. in Our Viceregal Life in India (1889) II. xii. 191 The children got three tin baths..and began to toboggan down the grassy slopes in them.

1964 Maclean's 2 Dec. 12/2 Their youngsters, in the absence of snow, do belly floppers on the terrazzo floors and toboggan around on shopping carts.

1965 Salmagundi Fall 42 Marie who must hold on tight as she toboggans down a slope.

2003 Church Times 17 Jan. 17/2 Hair-raising challenges for young men involve tobogganing down the steep grass slopes of an old volcano on palm logs.

2011 Times 17 Dec. (Weekend section) 24/4 The next day we walked through the woods, tobogganed, learnt how to steer husky sleds through forest trails.

b. intransitive. To slide or travel rapidly down a slope or incline.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > move downwards [verb (intransitive)] > slide down > at speed

shoota1771

toboggan1886

1886 Syracuse (N.Y.) Sunday Standard 23 May 2/5 The Doctor's feet flew from under him and he and his companion tobogganed down the flight like lightning.

1921 Country Gentleman 26 Mar. 3/1 Two locomotives, by dint of much puffing, slowly pull you to the top of some divide, and then the train toboggans down the other slope.

1928 L. R. Freeman Nearing North 352 Deeply loaded, both [canoes] had literally toboganed on the rocks all the way down to the steep shallow rapid.

1992 Internat. Wildlife May 34/3 Sensing water close at hand, the bird lurched to the edge of the steep bank, plunged over without hesitation and tobogganed into the water.

c. intransitive. figurative. To slide or decline swiftly; to hurtle (to, towards, or into some state or condition).

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > adversity > be in adversity [verb (intransitive)] > fall from prosperous or thriving condition

afalleOE

wanec1000

fallOE

ebba1420

to go backward?a1425

to go down?1440

decay1483

sink?a1513

delapsea1530

reel1529

decline1530

to go backwards1562

rue1576

droop1577

ruina1600

set1607

lapse1641

to lose ground1647

to go to pigs and whistles1794

to come (also go) down in the world1819

to peg out1852

to lose hold, one's balance1877

to go under1879

toboggan1887

slip1930

to turn down1936

1887 Advance 30 June 1/3 Europe is..tobogganing straight towards bankruptcy.

1931 F. L. Allen Only Yesterday ix. 244 Many people were tired of tobogganing into mental chaos.

1985 Times 31 July 15/1 Investors scramble to get out of stock, and prices toboggan.

2001 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 8 Jan. 12 Seven years she's got in front of her in a cell with five others. Drugs sent them all tobogganing to disaster.

2. With prepositional phrase.

a. transitive. To transport, slide, or drag (someone or something), usually across snow or down an incline.

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the world > movement > impelling or driving > pushing and pulling > push and pull [verb (transitive)] > pull > along a surface or behind

drawOE

harry1340

traila1380

traina1500

lag1530

strakec1530

entrain1568

drail1598

lurry1664

toboggan1886

schlep1911

1886 Evening Gaz. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) 8 June 4/3 His horse shied..and landed him in the gutter. Anthony hung to the ribbons the horse tobogganing him across the track and up the avenue.

1896 E. J. Goodman New Ground in Norway v. 40 The great trunks are ‘tobogganed’ down the mountain side.

1902 National Geographic Mag. Oct. 365/2 We could not leave him..so rolled him in canvas, fastened ropes to his feet and shoulders, and tobogganned him down 2,000 feet to a frozen camp.

1939 Minneapolis Tribune 1 June 1/2 (caption) The edge of the floor fell to the ground level and the second floor pupils were tobogganed out of the building amid a jumble of desks and chairs.

1952 Washington Post 9 Dec. 19/5 But he sat down on his skis. They tobogganed the boy swiftly down La Madera ski course's slope yesterday.

2000 Skiing Trauma & Safety 13 179 In some circumstances the patient was tobogganed below the clouds and was flown from a site with adequate environmental conditions.

b. transitive. U.S. figurative and in figurative contexts. To propel, direct, or drive (someone or something) (into, out of, etc., a particular state or condition). Now rare.

ΚΠ

1890 Oil City (Pa.) Derrick 21 Aug. We have done more to grease the path of the producer and toboggan him through the tight places of life than all the other factors that have ever entered the oil business.

1917 Clothing Designer & Manufacturer Aug. 246/1 Friction is the undermining influence of all management and must be tobogganed out of any business if success is the goal.

1930 Indiana (Pa.) Evening Gaz. 18 Dec. 6/5 People who saw or imagined black clouds on the horizon and turned panicky certainly helped to toboggan us into this depression.

1939 B. Hecht Bk. of Miracles 318 As he had been hornswoggled into the cigarette habit..he was tobogganed into the new hats, new shoes, new pants, new dresses, and new buttons for every change of weather habit.

Derivatives

toˈbogganing n. the activity or pastime of riding a toboggan.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > tobogganing > [noun]

hurley-hacket1529

coasting1775

tobogganing1849

toboggan1870

bobsledding1880

bobsleighing1885

bobbing1888

luging1907

bobsleigh1911

bobsled1932

luge1966

1849 J. E. Alexander L'Acadie I. 186 An amusement of which Canadian boys, and sometimes ladies too, are passionately fond..is called ‘toboggoning’.

1856 I. L. Bird Englishwoman in Amer. 264 With balls, and moose-hunting, and sleigh-driving, and ‘tarboggining’.

1879 J. A. Symonds Sketches Italy & Greece (ed. 2) 296 On a run selected for convenience..tobogganing is a very Bohemian amusement.

1906 Dress Dec. 18/1 Tobogganing, another favorite winter sport introduced from Canada, has many devotees.

2007 H. Patch & R. van Emden Last Fighting Tommy (2008) ii. 47 Just above the Somerset and Dorset Railway line was a very steep field. In deep snow we'd use it for tobogganing.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	toboggan
释义	toboggann. Brit. /təˈbɒɡ(ə)n/, U.S. /təˈbɑɡən/, Canadian English /təˈbɒɡən/ Forms: 1800s taboggan, 1800s tabognay, 1800s tarboggin, 1800s tarbogin, 1800s tobaggan, 1800s tobaugan, 1800s toboggen, 1800s toboggin, 1800s toboggon, 1800s tobogin, 1800s traboggin, 1800s treboggin, 1800s– tobogan, 1800s– toboggan. Origin: Perhaps of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Maliseet-Passamaquoddy. Perhaps partly a borrowing from Micmac. Etymons: Maliseet-Passamaquoddy ’tapakon, Micmac tapaqn. Etymology: < Maliseet-Passamaquoddy ’tapakon sled, toboggan (now more generally ‘vehicle’), and perhaps also its cognate Micmac †tapaqn toboggan, sled, sleigh, vehicle (now tepaqn ), further cognate with e.g. Western Abenaki odôbôgan toboggan, Eastern Abenaki wətάpαkan toboggan, sled, sleigh (see Tom Pung n.), probably via North American French toboggan, †tobogane (although this is apparently not attested in the early 19th cent.: 1691 as tabaganne in an isolated attestation, subsequently from 1881).In sense 2 after toboggan v.; compare earlier tobogganing n. at toboggan v. Derivatives. 1. A light sledge which curves upwards and backwards at the front, and has either a flat bottom or runners.Originally in Canadian contexts (see etymology). ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicle moving on runners > [noun] car1488 harrow15.. trail1570 sladea1585 slidec1692 carriole1761 carryall1797 trail-cart1803 jumper1823 toboggan1829 konaki1914 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > tobogganing > [noun] > toboggan or luge toboggan1829 bobsleigh1841 bob1856 coaster1869 bobsled1886 bobsleigh1894 luge1905 boblet1914 saucer sled1951 skeleton bob1954 1829 G. 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. 1879 J. A. Symonds Sketches Italy & Greece (ed. 2) 295 The little hand-sledge..which the English have christened by the Canadian term ‘toboggan’. 1885 New Bk. Sports 239 The steersman..gives the tobogan a start, and away they go down the hill. 1891 Month Sept. 24 Travelling with dogs and toboggans during winter. 1930 Oxf. Ann. Girls 135/2 They waved and shouted as the toboggan flashed by at top speed and was lost to sight behind a ridge of snow. 1940 Boys' Life Dec. 8 Swooping down-hill on a toboggan is one of winter's great thrills. 2004 New Yorker 12 Jan. 60/2 We were sitting on the toboggan, Tim in front, me in back. 2011 Times 24 Sept. (Travel section) 36 (advt.) Action packed days are spent trying out winter activities; learn how to snow shoe, ride toboggans and try ice skating. †2. The activity of tobogganing. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > tobogganing > [noun] hurley-hacket1529 coasting1775 tobogganing1849 toboggan1870 bobsledding1880 bobsleighing1885 bobbing1888 luging1907 bobsleigh1911 bobsled1932 luge1966 1870 Graphic 16 Apr. 463/3 Among the varied amusements which Canada affords during the cold weather, one of the most delightful is that of Toboggin. 1879 Birmingham 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. 3. U.S. and Australian colloquial. A rapid decline, a progression towards disaster. Usually in on the toboggan. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > adversity > [noun] > fall from prosperous or thriving condition > rapid downslide1889 toboggan1889 1889 World (N.Y.) 7 Sept. 7/6 He saw yesterday's game slip through the fingers of his players, and felt himself sliding over the edge of another incipient toboggan. 1910 E. 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? 1927 Amer. Mercury Feb. 223/1 One of them with twelve years' swell practice in New York till he hit the toboggan. 1947 Truth (Sydney) 6 July 64 (headline) British racing is on the toboggan. 1978 J. 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. 2013 @essentialideas 27 Nov. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) [In response to Happy Thanksgiving all. Busy teaching young generation it's full meaning.] When the world's top media person cannot spell, society is on the toboggan. It's its, not it's. 4. U.S. regional (southern and Midwest). A knit hat, originally one with a long, tapered end; = toboggan cap n. at Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > cap > types of > made from specific material > woollen Scottish cap1553 blue bonnet1568 blue capa1586 Scotch cap1591 statute cap1598 Monmouth1638 Scotch bonnet1641 Highland bonnet1724 Welsh wig1797 scone1820 glengarry1841 beret1850 Balmoral1857 tam-o'-shanter1884 toboggan cap1886 tammy1894 tam1895 toboggan1907 tam1972 1907 Weekly Sentinel (Fort Wayne, Indiana) 24 Apr. If an infant has been wearing a woolen toboggan this winter or a fleece lined cap of any kind, it can now be changed on a warm day to a Swiss bonnet. 1948 Pacific 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. 1975 Raleigh (N. Carolina) News & Observer 6 Jan. 24/4 He [sc. a burglar] was wearing a red toboggan and tight pants, police said. 2015 Charleston (W. Va.) Gaz.-Mail (Nexis) 28 July 8 a Vanpelt, 25, wore a toboggan and a black bandanna covering her face. Compounds C1. a. General attributive, as toboggan bag, toboggan ride, toboggan sleigh, etc. ΚΠ 1829 G. Head Forest Scenes N. Amer. 64 The tobogin bag when full is..laced tightly on the machine by means of a cord. 1881 Standard 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’. 1890 Silverton (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. 1902 A. 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. 2017 Peterborough (Ont.) Examiner (Nexis) 15 July a1 A video of Alkhalaf and her kids enjoying their first toboggan ride on Armour Hill was posted to YouTube. b. attributive. Designating a steep, slippery incline for tobogganing, as toboggan course, toboggan chute, toboggan run, toboggan slide. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > tobogganing > [noun] > slope or run coast1775 bob1856 toboggan1878 toboggan slide1878 run1879 chute1884 ice run1900 piste1917 1878 Cincinnati Commerc. Tribune 25 Nov. 2/2 In the rear of the house are the stables, the gas house, the curling and skating rinks and the famous toboggan slides. 1887 Evening Jrnl. (Muscatine, Iowa) 23 Mar. The man who loses his footing on a tobogan chute generally becomes a backslider. 1964 N.Y. Times 24 Jan. 33/1 Norman Barkley, a British sledder, flew off the treacherous toboggan course and broke his left arm. 1994 P. Laverdure in W. Klempa Burning Bush & Few Acres of Snow v. 89 The Alliance Presbyterians fought against the laws forcing Toronto municipal workers to work at toboggan slides on Sunday. 2009 Times 7 Feb. (Travel section) 54/1 This is no ordinary downhill slide. This is Big Pintenfritz, the world's longest toboggan run. C2. toboggan cap n. U.S. regional (southernand Midwest) a knit hat, originally one with a long, tapered end. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > cap > types of > made from specific material > woollen Scottish cap1553 blue bonnet1568 blue capa1586 Scotch cap1591 statute cap1598 Monmouth1638 Scotch bonnet1641 Highland bonnet1724 Welsh wig1797 scone1820 glengarry1841 beret1850 Balmoral1857 tam-o'-shanter1884 toboggan cap1886 tammy1894 tam1895 toboggan1907 tam1972 1886 Elkhart (Indiana) Sentinel 20 Nov. Toboggen caps are all the rage. 1928 Chicago 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. 1936 J. H. Street Look Away! xiii. 91 Tiller wore a faded green coat, woolen stockings, and a toboggan cap. 2008 Southwest Farm Press (U.S.) (Nexis) 12 Feb. I have two coats and a toboggan cap in my truck. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). tobogganv. Brit. /təˈbɒɡ(ə)n/, U.S. /təˈbɑɡən/ Forms: see toboggan n. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: toboggan n. Etymology: < toboggan n. 1. a. intransitive. To ride down a slope on a sleigh or toboggan. In extended use: to ride in or on something as if on a toboggan. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > tobogganing > toboggan [verb (intransitive)] coast1836 toboggan1846 bob1880 bobsled1880 bobsleigh1907 luge1907 1846 G. Warburton Hochelaga I. v. 123 They tarbogginned, slid, and trudged about merrily in the deep dry snow. 1887 Lady Dufferin Jrnl. 15 Oct. in Our Viceregal Life in India (1889) II. xii. 191 The children got three tin baths..and began to toboggan down the grassy slopes in them. 1964 Maclean's 2 Dec. 12/2 Their youngsters, in the absence of snow, do belly floppers on the terrazzo floors and toboggan around on shopping carts. 1965 Salmagundi Fall 42 Marie who must hold on tight as she toboggans down a slope. 2003 Church Times 17 Jan. 17/2 Hair-raising challenges for young men involve tobogganing down the steep grass slopes of an old volcano on palm logs. 2011 Times 17 Dec. (Weekend section) 24/4 The next day we walked through the woods, tobogganed, learnt how to steer husky sleds through forest trails. b. intransitive. To slide or travel rapidly down a slope or incline. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > move downwards [verb (intransitive)] > slide down > at speed shoota1771 toboggan1886 1886 Syracuse (N.Y.) Sunday Standard 23 May 2/5 The Doctor's feet flew from under him and he and his companion tobogganed down the flight like lightning. 1921 Country Gentleman 26 Mar. 3/1 Two locomotives, by dint of much puffing, slowly pull you to the top of some divide, and then the train toboggans down the other slope. 1928 L. R. Freeman Nearing North 352 Deeply loaded, both [canoes] had literally toboganed on the rocks all the way down to the steep shallow rapid. 1992 Internat. Wildlife May 34/3 Sensing water close at hand, the bird lurched to the edge of the steep bank, plunged over without hesitation and tobogganed into the water. c. intransitive. figurative. To slide or decline swiftly; to hurtle (to, towards, or into some state or condition). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > adversity > be in adversity [verb (intransitive)] > fall from prosperous or thriving condition afalleOE wanec1000 fallOE ebba1420 to go backward?a1425 to go down?1440 decay1483 sink?a1513 delapsea1530 reel1529 decline1530 to go backwards1562 rue1576 droop1577 ruina1600 set1607 lapse1641 to lose ground1647 to go to pigs and whistles1794 to come (also go) down in the world1819 to peg out1852 to lose hold, one's balance1877 to go under1879 toboggan1887 slip1930 to turn down1936 1887 Advance 30 June 1/3 Europe is..tobogganing straight towards bankruptcy. 1931 F. L. Allen Only Yesterday ix. 244 Many people were tired of tobogganing into mental chaos. 1985 Times 31 July 15/1 Investors scramble to get out of stock, and prices toboggan. 2001 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 8 Jan. 12 Seven years she's got in front of her in a cell with five others. Drugs sent them all tobogganing to disaster. 2. With prepositional phrase. a. transitive. To transport, slide, or drag (someone or something), usually across snow or down an incline. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impelling or driving > pushing and pulling > push and pull [verb (transitive)] > pull > along a surface or behind drawOE harry1340 traila1380 traina1500 lag1530 strakec1530 entrain1568 drail1598 lurry1664 toboggan1886 schlep1911 1886 Evening Gaz. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) 8 June 4/3 His horse shied..and landed him in the gutter. Anthony hung to the ribbons the horse tobogganing him across the track and up the avenue. 1896 E. J. Goodman New Ground in Norway v. 40 The great trunks are ‘tobogganed’ down the mountain side. 1902 National Geographic Mag. Oct. 365/2 We could not leave him..so rolled him in canvas, fastened ropes to his feet and shoulders, and tobogganned him down 2,000 feet to a frozen camp. 1939 Minneapolis Tribune 1 June 1/2 (caption) The edge of the floor fell to the ground level and the second floor pupils were tobogganed out of the building amid a jumble of desks and chairs. 1952 Washington Post 9 Dec. 19/5 But he sat down on his skis. They tobogganed the boy swiftly down La Madera ski course's slope yesterday. 2000 Skiing Trauma & Safety 13 179 In some circumstances the patient was tobogganed below the clouds and was flown from a site with adequate environmental conditions. b. transitive. U.S. figurative and in figurative contexts. To propel, direct, or drive (someone or something) (into, out of, etc., a particular state or condition). Now rare. ΚΠ 1890 Oil City (Pa.) Derrick 21 Aug. We have done more to grease the path of the producer and toboggan him through the tight places of life than all the other factors that have ever entered the oil business. 1917 Clothing Designer & Manufacturer Aug. 246/1 Friction is the undermining influence of all management and must be tobogganed out of any business if success is the goal. 1930 Indiana (Pa.) Evening Gaz. 18 Dec. 6/5 People who saw or imagined black clouds on the horizon and turned panicky certainly helped to toboggan us into this depression. 1939 B. Hecht Bk. of Miracles 318 As he had been hornswoggled into the cigarette habit..he was tobogganed into the new hats, new shoes, new pants, new dresses, and new buttons for every change of weather habit. Derivatives toˈbogganing n. the activity or pastime of riding a toboggan. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > tobogganing > [noun] hurley-hacket1529 coasting1775 tobogganing1849 toboggan1870 bobsledding1880 bobsleighing1885 bobbing1888 luging1907 bobsleigh1911 bobsled1932 luge1966 1849 J. E. Alexander L'Acadie I. 186 An amusement of which Canadian boys, and sometimes ladies too, are passionately fond..is called ‘toboggoning’. 1856 I. L. Bird Englishwoman in Amer. 264 With balls, and moose-hunting, and sleigh-driving, and ‘tarboggining’. 1879 J. A. Symonds Sketches Italy & Greece (ed. 2) 296 On a run selected for convenience..tobogganing is a very Bohemian amusement. 1906 Dress Dec. 18/1 Tobogganing, another favorite winter sport introduced from Canada, has many devotees. 2007 H. Patch & R. van Emden Last Fighting Tommy (2008) ii. 47 Just above the Somerset and Dorset Railway line was a very steep field. In deep snow we'd use it for tobogganing. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1829v.1846
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