Meaning of skinful | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Enough to fill a skin.
2. Enough alcoholic drink to cause inebriation.
   colloquial
3. Plenty; a large amount.
   slang

Examples

“a skinful of wine”

“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.”

“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.””

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