Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hogskin

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: hogskin
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

1

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Leather tanned from the skin of a hog.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

The skin of a pig used as a bottle for water or wine.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"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."
"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."

Etymology

From hog + skin.

Usage

Inflected Forms

hogskins (plural)

Synonyms

hoghide pighide pigskin

Questions

What does hogskin mean?: Leather tanned from the skin of a hog.
Where does hogskin come from?: From hog + skin.

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