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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

/ ˈɪˌʊ /

noun

  1. slang.
    sufficient alcoholic drink to make one drunk (esp in the phrase have a skinful )
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Spelling Note

See -ful.
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of skinful1

First recorded in 1640–50; skin + -ful
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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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