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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
  1. 1

    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.