I will certainly look into the question of glassfuls, "toothfuls"and"skinfuls", and see whether they can be eliminated.
I think he was a little apprehensive about the way that such colloquial terms as "skinfuls"and"glassfuls" might be taken.
But people often do this if they have had a skinful of drink.
They are the people whom we should consider, not the people in the flashy cars who screech around the town late at night, having had a skinful of drink.