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

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• skinfuls
  plural

Etymology

Origin of skinful

First recorded in 1640–50; skin + -ful

Example Sentences

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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

Now, as he came near the giants' house, he met one of them carrying a huge skinful of water.

From Tales of the Punjab by Steel, Flora Annie

Carried forwards a large skinful of water, being uncertain whether we should find any on the road.

From The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805 by Whishaw, John

"Arrah, why, woman; what do they want but their skinful to eat and dhrink, and I'm sure we're able to allow them that, any way?"

From The Station; The Party Fight And Funeral; The Lough Derg Pilgrim Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by Carleton, William

I've adopted a mongrel Irish Terrier--the most fascinating skinful of sin the world has ever produced.

From The Mountebank by Locke, William John

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 Wright, Thomas

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 Carleton, William

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 Bent, Theodore