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plural skinfuls or skinsful
Enough to fill a skin. examples
(colloquial) Enough alcoholic drink to cause inebriation. quotations examples
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.
1773, Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer
(slang) Plenty; a large amount. quotations
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”?
1959, Frank Clune, Murders on Maunga-tapu, page 10
“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.”
2011, Anne Emery, Death at Christy Burke's, page 102