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what's a toboggan?
And all-y'all other USns, what do you understand by this word? ~ but please give Mr W a chance to answer first.
There's no trick, just a genuine question, born of DARE-type interest...
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Hope you don't mind if I jump in and clarify, Mav; not everyone may be familiar with the DARE project: DARE: Dictionary of American Regional English. http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/dare/dare.html
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Shoot, Maverick, ask me a hard one.
A toboggin ( I think you misspelt the word) is a knit hat that you pull down over your head when your ears are cold, or when you are in a mood to rob a Quick-mart store.
I have heard of athletes who toboggin in the Olympics but I don't really know the difference between a toboggin and a sled.
Why?
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Thanks, Milo ~ mind ifn I let some of your brethren and sistren from other states have a go before I comment?
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the hat Milo describes is a Ski Hat in NY-- and comes with either one slit/hole for the face or one for eyes, one for nose and one for mouth.
a tobaggin is flat sled, that seats 3 or more people, with a curved front --(a regular sled, is a flat surface(open boards, usually raised on metal runners, (the runners are shaped almost like bladed of the blade of figure (ice) skates) --radio flyer (them of little red wagon fame) also make sleds. (or see a sled in the closing minutes of citizen kane, when the flash back shows kane, as child getting a sled for christmas.. (rosebud)
sleds have moveable cross bars in front, with ropes attached, to help you stear the sled, and to pull it up the hill.
(and nowday, saucers are popular for snow.. round or oval or a rounded triangular shape, they are modern improved versions of garbage can lids--(ghetto sleds) )
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What of troy said. Michigan and New York: together forever!
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I believe that what Milo has described is a.k.a. a toboggan cap or stocking cap, which covers most of the head and face; i.e., a hat often seen worn by sledders and/or tobogganists. (not to be confused with balaclavas)
p.s. - the standard spelling for sled, slope or hat is toboggan.
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So how about Lou~uhv'l, Miss J? And anyone from the Lone Star state in the house?
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And anyone from the Lone Star state in the house?
Ain't got no hills worth the mention in Texas, Mav.
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I know the word to mean both sled and cap, as mentioned by others above. I can't say where I learned each meaning, or which came first, though.
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