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English
Etymology
From hog + skin.
Noun
hogskin (countable and uncountable, plural hogskins)
- Leather tanned from the skin of a hog.
- Synonyms: hoghide, pighide, pigskin
1900, Jack London, The Dignity of Dollars: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 skin above the hips.
- The skin of a pig used as a bottle for water or wine.
1869, Mark Twain, chapter LI, in The Innocents Abroad, page 543: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.
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