snootful

[ snoot-fool ]

noun,plural snoot·fuls.Informal.
  1. a sufficient amount of liquor to cause intoxication.

Origin of snootful

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usage note For snootful

See -ful.

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How to use snootful in a sentence

  • The truth of the matter being that he is just a plain, ordinary poop and needs a snootful as badly as ever man did.

    Right Ho, Jeeves | P. G. Wodehouse
  • They're bringing a snootful of radiological hell, and that's the damned bayonet-line across the road.

    Way of a Rebel | Walter M. Miller
  • The rocket launcher hadn't retracted; there was still a rocket in it—with a snootful of Uranium 235.

    Way of a Rebel | Walter M. Miller