skinful of drink - Glite Dictionary

Examples

She regretted having a skinful of drink the night before the interview.
They were in high spirits after getting a skinful of drink at the pub.
After a skinful of drink, he could barely walk straight.
She had a skinful of drink at the party last night.
After a skinful of drink, he felt relaxed and ready to enjoy the evening.
She couldn't remember much after having a skinful of drink at the celebration.
Having a skinful of drink at the pub made them all very jovial and carefree.

Synonyms

load

vsskinful of drink

Archaic

22 9.6

A large amount of alcohol that makes someone drunk

emphasizes a large consumed quantity rather than a simple measure

skinful

vsskinful of drink

UK

9.8

An amount of alcohol that makes someone drunk

means the exact same amount with no real difference

snootful

vsskinful of drink

Slang

9.9

A large amount of alcohol that makes you drunk

focuses on the amount actually drunk rather than just size

Antonyms

abstinence

NSFW

63 6.4

Choosing not to do things like drinking alcohol or having sex

sobriety

49 4.6

A state of not drinking alcohol or using drugs

How Much

skinful of drink

UK

9.8

bottle

284 1.0

glass

622 1.0

sip

165 1.0

Surface Forms

skinful of drink singular

skinfuls of drink plural

Morphology

skinful + of + drink

The noun 'skinful' already encodes an amount of alcohol causing intoxication, and adding the prepositional specification 'of drink' simply names the substance; both 'of' and 'drink' are high-frequency and semantically transparent. The overall meaning is directly inferable from the constituents following a common measure‑of‑substance pattern, so a learner who knows the parts would understand the MWE.

Etymology

Skinful of drink may come from old times when people used an animal skin as a bottle, and a skinful was the amount that filled it. So skinful of drink came to mean drinking enough alcohol to be 'drunk'.