skinful

American  

[skin-fool] / ˈskɪn fʊl /

noun

• skinfuls
  plural

1. the amount that a skin container can hold.

2. Informal. a large or satisfying amount of food and drink.

3. Informal. an amount of liquor sufficient to make a person drunk.

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skinful British  

/ ˈskɪnˌfʊl /

noun

1. slang sufficient alcoholic drink to make one drunk (esp in the phrase have a skinful )

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Spelling

See -ful.

Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• skinfuls
  plural

Etymology

Origin of skinful

First recorded in 1640–50; skin + -ful

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

skinful skinfuls

Blackburn, who were 19th, were left standing around like a Sunday League team whose opponents haven't turned up after a skinful the night before.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 5, 2013

Arrah now, shir, you gave me my skinful of what was gud; but don't be luakin' fwhun o' me after.

From Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by William Carleton

He was a creature flimsy as paper, a mere lithe skinful of bones, in whom the wit of the thief supplied the place of strength.

From Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories by Perceval Gibbon

"We must cleave together, and you shall have a skinful of books and school and manners."

From Blackbeard: Buccaneer by Frank Earle Schoonover

Here, you bitter old randle-tree, there are three thirteens for you; and if you will go down to the kitchen with the cook, he will give you a regular skinful.'

From Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by William Carleton

We were to fill all our waterskins from a remarkably fine well of particularly sweet water at Hadi, so we took only a couple of skinfuls with us.

From Southern Arabia by Theodore Bent

Arrived again at the well Zem-Zem, Burton had to take another nauseous draught and was deluged with two skinfuls of the water dashed over his head.

From The Life of Sir Richard Burton by Thomas Wright

Here, Nancy Devlin, get Peety and the girsha their skinfuls of stirabout an' milk.

From The Emigrants Of Ahadarra The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two by William Carleton