skinful
/skin-fool/US // ˈskɪn fʊl //UK // (ˈskɪnˌfʊl) //
富有光泽,富有皮肤的,富有光泽的,富有弹性
Definitions
n.名词 noun
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plural skin·fuls.
- : the amount that a skin container can hold.
- : Informal. a large or satisfying amount of food and drink.
- : Informal. an amount of liquor sufficient to make a person drunk.
Examples
Pellett had had his skinful, and the fitness of things decreed that he should soak the clock around.
So it was four o'clock and all well—but me; I felt like a skinful of dry bones and all of them trying to ache at once.
As a last chance, an Apache took a skinful of water, and poured the contents on the bare and bleeding skull of the Spaniard.
At length the time arrived, and, fortified with a good dinner and a skinful of "Mumm Cabinet," we proceeded to the witch's den.
The Old French form means "skinful" (cf. poignée, fistful), the hounds' reward being spread on the skin of the slain animal.
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