skinful

English edit

skin +‎ -ful

skinful (plural skinfuls or skinsful)

Enough to fill a skin.
a skinful of wine
(colloquial) Enough alcoholic drink to cause inebriation.
I wasn't thinking straight – I'd had a skinful that night.
- 1773, Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer:
  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.
(slang) Plenty; a large amount.
- 1959, Frank Clune, Murders on Maunga-tapu, page 10:
  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”?
- 2011, Anne Emery, Death at Christy Burke's, page 102:
  “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.”