skinful
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 14
- Words With Friends
- 17
- Letters
- 7
/ˈskɪnfəl/
Definition of skinful
3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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Enough to fill a skin.
“a skinful of wine”
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noun
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Enough to fill a skin.
“a skinful of wine”
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(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.”
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(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.
Words you can make from skinful
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