naugahydenaugahyde means an artificial leather made with a knit fabric backing and PVC coating.EtymologyA marketing coinage of the 1930s, from Naugatuck, Connecticut, where it was first produced, and hide; it was humorously marketed as being the skin of an animal called a Nauga.nounAn artificial leather made with a knit fabric backing and PVC coating.“The floor was of plain yellow tile, the chairs and sofa of what looked like light green Naugahyde.”