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skinful

skinful

9.8
An amount of alcohol that makes someone drunk
  • noun
  • /ˈskɪn.fəl/
  • UK
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  • After a long night at the pub, he stumbled home with a skinful of beer in him.

Examples

  • What with a skinful of beer?

    AstroVan (2025)

  • I've had a skinful of it.

    Blog text (29)

  • My brother Danny wasn't wise nor was he gentle... and with a skinful of liquor in him he was a pain in the ass...

    Road to Perdition (2002)

  • Unable to work until he had Benedict's model before him, he roamed the town, fidgety as a dog with a skinful of fleas.

    Fiction book (2000)

  • She felt lightheaded and giggly, having enjoyed a skinful of cocktails at the party.

  • They decided to call it a night when they realized they both had a skinful of whiskey.

Synonyms

load
vsskinful
  • Archaic
22 9.6

A large amount of alcohol that makes someone drunk

focuses on alcohol enough to make someone drunk rather than general quantities
skinful of drink
vsskinful
  • UK
9.8

A large amount of alcohol that makes a person drunk

is the shorter colloquial form of the same expression
snootful
vsskinful
  • Slang
9.9

A large amount of alcohol that makes you drunk

is about any amount that makes someone drunk, not necessarily large

Antonyms

sobriety
49 4.6

A state of not drinking alcohol or using drugs

moderation
47 3.5

Keeping actions or feelings within reasonable limits

Idioms

skinful of laughter
  • UK
9.3

A lot of loud happy laughter that people share

Compounds

skinful of drink
  • UK
9.8

A large amount of alcohol that makes a person drunk

How Much

skinful
  • UK
9.8
bottle
284 1.0
glass
622 1.0
sip
165 1.0

Surface Forms

skinful singular
skinfuls plural

Morphology

skinful = skin (semi-transparent) = skin + ful

Formation follows the regular measurement pattern (e.g., 'cupful'), but 'skin' as a unit/container is archaic/metaphorical and not obvious to learners.

Etymology

The word skinful comes from joining skin + -ful, from the idea of filling an animal skin as a container, so a skinful is as much drink as that skin would hold. Think of words like cupful or handful, where -ful means 'full of', and that is why skinful means enough alcohol 'to make someone drunk'.