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ˈpigskin
[f. pig n.1 + skin.]
1. a. The skin of the pig or hog (called in 18th c. hogskin); leather made of this. Hence in Sporting slang, (a) a saddle; also attrib.; (b) U.S., a football; also attrib.
1855Athenæum 29 Dec. 1531 The Major..sees more things in pigskin and whipcord than are found in most men's philosophy. 1876Besant & Rice Gold. Butterfly ii, The best servant who ever put his leg across pig-skin. 1894J. K. Fowler Recollect. O. Country Life vi. 44 He was not particularly noted in the pigskin. 1894University of Chicago Weekly 11 Oct. 8/2 Roby put the pigskin over the line. 1898Sporting Times 26 Nov. 3/3 He..has again electrified English turf followers by riding rings around their crack knights of the pigskin. 1899Mackail Life Morris II. 326 The white pigskin binding with silver clasps. 1928Galsworthy Swan Song ii. i. 105 Val..had picked him up on his retirement from the pig-skin in 1921. 1941Baker Dict. Austral. Slang 54 Pigskin artist, a jockey. 1945Richmond (Virginia) Times-Dispatch 25 Oct. 10/6 Our football prophets are unfortunate fellows... I was told by the prophets of the pigskin that Ohio State would romp over poor Purdue. 1970New Yorker 3 Oct. 34/3 A quick-thinking distaff pigskin zealot. 1974Anderson (S. Carolina) Independent 24 Apr. 5b/1 He carried the pigskin on the end around 11 times for 73 yards, or an average of 6.6 yards per carry. 1977Time 14 Nov. 49/2 The British-born geologist..may not help his school's pigskin standings, but no matter.
b. The skin of a hog used as a bottle.
1883H. W. V. Stuart Egypt 37 Water-carriers loaded with pig⁓skins were conspicuous among the throng.
2. Med. = peau d'orange.
1898[see peau d'orange]. 1943C. F. Geschickter Dis. Breast xx. 480 There is no sharp dividing line between the inflammatory change in the skin observed in acute carcinoma and the more common pigskin or lenticular dermatitis observed late in the disease in cases of large infiltrating mammary cancer. 1966Wright & Symmers Systemic Path. I. xxviii. 1010/2 Other cutaneous changes are local oedema (‘pigskin’, peau d'orange..) due to tumour cells growing in and blocking the lumen of the lymphatics in the superficial tissue of the breast, [etc.]. |