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Skinful

noun
(pl. skinfuls)
1.
A quantity of alcoholic drink sufficient to make you drunk.





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"Skinful" Quotes from Famous Books



... the walls of the tent while we eat our dinner. The natives squatted down in a circle outside the tent pins, and watched every morsel we put into our mouths with the utmost interest and with many exclamations of surprise and astonishment; and when before retiring for the night we as usual had a skinful of water poured over us, their wonder knew no bounds; they were evidently but slightly acquainted with the use of water as applied for the purposes ...
— A Peep into Toorkisthhan • Rollo Burslem
... youngsters have gone home we can drop down across to the Quiet Woman, and strike up a ballet in front of the married folks' door. 'Twill please the young wife, and that's what I should like to do, for many's the skinful I've had at her hands when she lived with her aunt ...
— The Return of the Native • Thomas Hardy


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