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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



... tarred with the wan brush, I reckon," replied Triggs. "If not, they cudn't keep things goin' as they do: 'tis the drink car'ies 'em through with it. Why, I knaws by the little I've a done that ways myself how 'tis. Git a good skinful o' grog in 'ee, and wan man feels he's five, and, so long as it lasts, he's got the sperrit and 'ull do the work o' five too: then when 'tis beginnin' to drop a bit, in with more liquor, and so go ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 - of Popular Literature and Science • Various


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