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

Inflected Forms

noun

• skinfuls
  plural

Etymology

Origin of skinful

First recorded in 1640–50; skin + -ful

Example Sentences

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

They had watered the ground once or twice between the quarters, and a careless waterman had emptied the last of his skinful all in one place near the Skidars' goal.

From The Day's Work - Volume 1 by Kipling, Rudyard

Then I bade them bring a large basin which could hold a skinful of water and ordered them fill it; after which I called out to the Bassorite, "Draw near," and he drew near.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 14 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

The American insect knows nothing of these limitations; it empties the haricot completely and leaves a skinful of filth that I have seen the pigs refuse.

From Social Life in the Insect World by Miall, Bernard

So it was four o'clock and all well—but me; I felt like a skinful of dry bones and all of them trying to ache at once.

From Life on the Mississippi, Part 2. by Twain, Mark