skinful

[skin-fool]

noun

plural

skinfuls 

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.

skinful

/ ˈskɪnˌfʊl /

noun

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

Spelling Note

See -ful.

Word History and Origins

Origin of skinful¹

First recorded in 1640–50; skin + -ful

Example Sentences

The court heard how Mr Humble and his partner, Adele Stubbs, had enjoyed a meal and drinks after lockdown restrictions were eased and she later recalled they had drunk "a canny skinful".

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Mr Humble and his partner, Adele Stubbs, had enjoyed a meal and drinks after lockdown restrictions were eased and she later recalled they had drunk "a canny skinful".

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"I am not come here to laugh or to jeer, but for a pocketful of money, and a skinful of beer," goes one version of the custom.

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There was a smell that lingered around her mother that Becky still remembers, the smell that seems to seep out of the pores of someone who's had a skinful the night before.

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What was left in its place felt like a nation waking up from last night’s skinful to wonder: “Was I the worst?”

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