skinful

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
14
Words With Friends
17
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ˈskɪnfəl/

Definition of skinful

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. Enough to fill a skin.
    “a skinful of wine”
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noun

  1. Enough to fill a skin.
    “a skinful of wine”
  2. (colloquial)Enough alcoholic drink to cause inebriation.
    “I wasn't thinking straight – I'd had a skinful that night.”
    “When methodist preachers come down, A-preaching that drinking is sinful, I'll wager the rascals a crown, They always preach best with a skinful.”
    ““’E generally goes down there when ’e’s got ’is skinful, beggin’ your pardon, sir, an’ they do say that the more lush — in-he-briated ’e is, the more fish ’e catches.””
    “"People who've had a skinful," Robey explains. "They lose their inhibitions and forget the boundaries of acceptable behaviour.”
  3. (slang)Plenty; a large amount.
    “To steal a housewife's purse might mean that her children would have to go hungry; but what of that, if the flash young “dip” could gain admiration from his mates by boasting that he had “frisked a judy's cly and lifted a skinful of bunce”?”
    ““Now there's a skinful of abuse!” the curly top exclaimed. “Sounds as if she crossed the ocean just to denounce you in a public place.””

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From skin + -ful.

Anagrams of skinful

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