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hogskin

hogskin noun: leather tanned from the skin of a hog.

Noun

hogskin (countable and uncountable, plural hogskins)

  1. Leather tanned from the skin of a hog.
    • My spiritual backbone stiffened, and I held my head high, looking all men in the eyes. And I did these things, not that I was an egotist, not that I was impervious to the critical glances of my fellows, but because of a certain hogskin belt, plethoric and sweat-bewrinkled, which buckled next the...1900, Jack London, The Dignity of Dollars
    Synonyms:
    hoghide, pighide, pigskin
  2. The skin of a pig used as a bottle for water or wine.
    • Other Arabs were filling black hog-skins with water—skins which, well filled, and distended with water till the short legs projected painfully out of the proper line, looked like the corpses of hogs bloated by drowning.1869, Mark Twain, chapter LI, in The Innocents Abroad, page 543

Synonyms of hogskin

Forms of hogskin

pluralhogskins

Origin of hogskin

From hog + skin.

Questions about hogskin

What does hogskin mean?
Hogskin means leather tanned from the skin of a hog.
What part of speech is hogskin?
Hogskin is a noun.
What is the plural of hogskin?
The plural of hogskin is hogskins.

Words near hogskin in the dictionary

  1. hogshead
  2. hogsheads
  3. hogship
  4. hogships
  5. hogshit
  6. hogskin
  7. hogskins
  8. hogsties
  9. Hogston
  10. Hogstons
  11. hogsty

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