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Too much to drink
Answer for the clue "Too much to drink ", 8 letters:
snootful
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Word definitions for snootful in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context informal English) A noseful. 2 (context informal English) A significant ingested quantity of an alcoholic beverage.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"as much (liquor) as one can take," 1885, from snoot (n.) + -ful .
Usage examples of snootful.
Getting his hands and his uniform dirty was at least as good a way of blowing off steam as getting a snootful of whiskey—.
I don't know why, but the thought that Bingley must have been pinching the thing at the very moment when Jeeves and I were sipping our snootfuls in the next room seemed to make it so particularly poignant.