pigskin.
The skin of a pig.
Meaning & usage
The skin of a pig.
Leather made from the skin of a pig.
A football.
A white person.
Where this word comes from
Compound of pig + skin. The American football is a direct descendant of the ball used in the game of rugby. The rugby ball originally was made of a pig’s bladder with a leather cover; the earliest versions of the leather exterior sometimes were made of pigskin.
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.