hog-rubber

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hog-rubber (plural hog-rubbers)

  1. (obsolete, derogatory) A coarse fellow only fit to such work as rubbing hogs.
    Synonyms: yokel, bumpkin
    • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Love Melancholy”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy: , 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 3, section 1, member 2, subsection 1, page 343:
      nought but his imperfections are in our eyes, he is a baſe knaue, a diuell, a monſter, a caterpiller, a viper, an hog-rubber &c.