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tobogganist

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to⋅bog⋅gan

  [tuh-bog-uhn]
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–noun
1. a long, narrow, flat-bottomed sled made of a thin board curved upward and backward at the front, often with low handrails on the sides, used esp. in the sport of coasting over snow or ice.
–verb (used without object)
2. to use, or coast on, a toboggan.
3. to fall rapidly, as prices or one's fortune.
Origin:
1820–30; < Maliseet-Passamaquoddy tʰapákən, Micmac topaĝan (equiv. to Proto-Algonquian *weta⋅pye⋅- to drag a cord + *-kan- instrument for)

Related forms:
to⋅bog⋅gan⋅er, to⋅bog⋅gan⋅ist, noun
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to·bog·gan   (tə-bŏg'ən)   
n.  A long, narrow, runnerless sled constructed of thin boards curled upward at the front end.
intr.v.   to·bog·ganed, to·bog·gan·ing, to·bog·gans

  1. To coast, ride, or travel on a toboggan.

  2. Slang To decline or fall rapidly: His good fortune has tobogganed.


[Canadian French tobagan, from Micmac topaghan.]
to·bog'gan·er, to·bog'gan·ist n.
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Word Origin & History

toboggan 
"long, flat-bottomed sled," 1829, from Canadian Fr. tabagane, from Algonquian (probably Micmac) tobakun "a sled." The verb is recorded from 1846. As Amer.Eng. colloquial for a type of long woolen cap, it is recorded from 1929 (earlier toboggan cap, 1928), presumably because one worse such a cap while tobogganing.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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