单词 | skinful |
释义 | skinfuln. 1. a. As much as a body or person can hold; a body's worth of something. Also figurative: a person filled with a particular quality, emotion, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > [noun] lichamc888 bodyeOE earthOE lichOE bone houseOE dustc1000 fleshOE utter mana1050 bonesOE bodiȝlichc1175 bouka1225 bellyc1275 slimec1315 corpsec1325 vesselc1360 tabernaclec1374 carrion1377 corsec1386 personc1390 claya1400 carcass1406 lump of claya1425 sensuality?a1425 corpusc1440 God's imagea1450 bulka1475 natural body1526 outward man1526 quarrons1567 blood bulk1570 skinfula1592 flesh-rind1593 clod1595 anatomy1597 veil1598 microcosm1601 machine1604 outwall1608 lay part1609 machina1612 cabinet1614 automaton1644 case1655 mud wall1662 structure1671 soul case1683 incarnation1745 personality1748 personage1785 man1830 embodiment1850 flesh-stuff1855 corporeity1865 chassis1930 soma1958 a1592 R. Greene Sc. Hist. Iames IV (1598) iii. sig. F Thou shalt both haue Thy skin full of wine, and the rest of thy mony. 1616 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Scornful Ladie i. sig. B4v What a skin full of lust is this? I thought I had come awoeing, and I am the courted party. 1650 J. Howell Addit. Lett. ii. 4 in Epistolæ Ho-elianæ (ed. 2) I could willingly..return this small skinfull of Bones to my common Mother. 1651 T. Randolph et al. Hey for Honesty iv. iii. 34/2 What ails this Skin-ful of Lechery? alas poor Granam, dost thou grieve because thou wantest money to go drink with thy gossips! 1710 E. Ward Nuptial Dialogues & Deb. I. xxviii. 342 I cannot kiss.., when I have heard your Groans, A wither'd Skinful of such mouldy Bones. 1785 Comical Tricks Leper the Taylor 10 Poor Sandy went home with a skinful of terror. 1787 R. Burns Let. 7 July (1985) I. 128 And down came the Highlandman, horse & all..; so I have got such a skinful of bruises and wounds, that I shall at least be four weeks before I dare venture on my journey to Edinburgh. 1842 Times 31 Jan. 3/3 There were others who, after toiling all day, got nothing but a skinful of tired bones. 1857 Harper's Mag. Dec. 110/1 My master being a good fellow, I used to side with him, and this brought me a skinful of sore bones more than once. 1869 W. S. Gilbert Bab Ballads 81 He wept to think each thoughtless youth Contained of wickedness a skinful. 1900 J. O. Hobbes Osbern & Ursyne iii. ii. 87 O, that he had Ten bodies to be slaughtered! One skinful of flesh Is not enough to appease our appetite For vengeance! 1964 Amer. Anthropologist 66 720 It is already old hat in good medical schools to allow a view of the patient as an animated cadaver, a skinful of organs perambulating around. 2004 P. Vansittart John Paul Jones i. 5 He was independent, alert for slights, a skinful of inner conflicts, eluding absolute verdicts. b. colloquial. As much alcohol as a person can hold; esp. a quantity of alcohol sufficient to make a person drunk. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > [noun] > a drink of > large drink pulla1500 rousea1593 load1594 carouse1599 elbow-healtha1627 skinful1788 swag1819 nor'-wester1835 long beer1892 snootful1918 1636 T. Heywood Loves Maistresse iii. i. sig. Lv Dicken, if anon thou wilt be sinfull To drinke with mee, I will give thee thy skin-full. 1693 R. Ames Bacchanalian Sessions 17 Let each Mortal his skinful most soberly drink Of the Liquor he likes, or what best he does think. 1770 Gentleman's Mag. 40 560 To express the Condition of an Honest Fellow..under the Effects of good Fellowship, it is said that he [has]..Got his Skin full. 1773 O. Goldsmith She stoops to Conquer i. 10 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. 1788 Columbian Mag. Oct. 557/2 Determined, as they said, once more to get a skin-full of liquor. 1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller II. 234 When he has no liquor at all, or when he has a skinfull. 1839 W. M. Thackeray Fatal Boots (1869) 348 On this night I had my little skinful,—for there was no stinting. 1886 W. Graham Social Probl. 203 Why should I work, when I..can get my skinful? 1938 Pop. Sci. Monthly Nov. 12/1 The motorist with a skinful could warn following cars, ‘I've had one too many: pass at your own risk’. 1985 S. Hood Storm from Paradise (1988) 123 Young Adams would have had a skinful on New Year's Eve... He was unlikely to remember much about the evening before. 2001 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 9 Dec. 40/1 (headline) A skinful..but yes, we have no hangover. c. colloquial. With of. As much as a person wants or can tolerate, a bellyful. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > enough to satisfy want or desire fillc893 fulla1225 fillinga1400 sufficiencec1450 bellyful1535 stakinga1595 wameful1722 skinful1897 1897 Pall Mall Mag. Dec. 501 His men had had a skinful of fighting and short commons just before. 1942 N. Balchin Darkness falls from Air x. 178 Count me out. I agree with Sarratt. I've had a skinful of voluntary schemes. 1999 Guardian (Nexis) 10 Feb. 2 He has already had a skinful of Tory questions. 2. A quantity sufficient to fill a skin (skin n. 4a); the contents of such a vessel. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > amount defined by capacity > [noun] > amount that fills a receptacle > skin vessel skinful?1757 ?1757 G. S. Green Life J. Van I. xiv. 151 Mr. Van..gave him a Skinful of the same Liquor; that the whole Family might be truly satisfied they suffered no Loss by the Loan of the Sixpence. 1802 R. Southey King Ramiro xii So he gave him..a skinful of wine to quench his thirst. 1885 Cent. Mag. 29 652/1 Well do I remember how at each well the first skinful [of water] was tasted all around. 1900 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 11 199 A Tartar courier is described..as eating at one time a large skinful of raisins and a middle-sized pig. 1990 Globe & Mail (Canada) (Nexis) 25 July An unknown desert tribesman of prehistoric times loaded a skinful of milk on his camel to take on a journey. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1592 |
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