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skinful

[ skin-fool ]

noun

, plural skin·fuls.
  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 )


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Spelling Note

See -ful.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of skinful1

First recorded in 1640–50; skin + -ful

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Example Sentences

Pellett had had his skinful, and the fitness of things decreed that he should soak the clock around.

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.

As a last chance, an Apache took a skinful of water, and poured the contents on the bare and bleeding skull of the Spaniard.

At length the time arrived, and, fortified with a good dinner and a skinful of "Mumm Cabinet," we proceeded to the witch's den.

The Old French form means "skinful" (cf. poignée, fistful), the hounds' reward being spread on the skin of the slain animal.

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