trademark name patented (U.S.) Dec. 7, 1937, by United States Rubber Products Inc., for an artificial leather made from fabric base treated with rubber, etc. From Naugatuk, rubber-making town in Connecticut, + hyde, an arbitrary variant of hide, n.. The town name is Southern New England Algonquian *neguttuck "one tree," from *negut- "one" + *-tugk "tree."