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skinfuls

skinfuls is the plural of skinful.

Meaning of skinful

Noun

skinful (plural skinfuls or skinsful)

  1. Enough to fill a skin.
    • a skinful of wine
  2. (colloquial) Enough alcoholic drink to cause inebriation.
    • I wasn't thinking straight – I'd had a skinful that night.
  3. (slang) Plenty; a large amount.
    • 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

Questions about skinfuls

What is skinfuls the plural of?
Skinfuls is the plural of skinful.

Words near skinfuls in the dictionary

  1. skinfolds
  2. skinfolk
  3. skinfood
  4. skinfoods
  5. skinful
  6. skinfuls
  7. skingirl
  8. skingirls
  9. skinhead
  10. skinheaded
  11. skinheadism

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