Did you know that 'toboggan' is actually Amerindian?

'Toboggan' is a word borrowed from Amerindian 'topaĝan'. The word entered the English language some time around 1820.

toboggan [noun] [circa 1820]

• a long flat-bottomed light sled made usually of thin boards curved up at one end with usually low handrails at the side...
• a downward course or a sharp decline
• stocking cap

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Etymology: Canadian French 'tobogan' of Algonquian origin; akin to Micmac 'tobâgun' drag made of skin

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