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skinful
[ skin-fool ]
noun
, plural skin·fuls.
- the amount that a skin container can hold.
- Informal. a large or satisfying amount of food and drink.
- Informal. an amount of liquor sufficient to make a person drunk.
skinful
/ ˈskɪnˌfʊl /
noun
- slang.sufficient alcoholic drink to make one drunk (esp in the phrase have a skinful )
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Example Sentences
Pellett had had his skinful, and the fitness of things decreed that he should soak the clock around.
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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.
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As a last chance, an Apache took a skinful of water, and poured the contents on the bare and bleeding skull of the Spaniard.
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At length the time arrived, and, fortified with a good dinner and a skinful of "Mumm Cabinet," we proceeded to the witch's den.
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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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