Puckery
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Puckery
Inclined to become puckered or wrinkled; full of puckers or wrinkles. -
Puckery
Producing, or tending to produce, a pucker; as, a puckery taste.
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puckery
Producing or tending to produce puckers: as, a puckery taste (that is, a bitter or astringent taste such as may cause the mouth to pucker). -
puckery
Inclined to become puckered or wrinkled; full of puckers or wrinkles: said especially of a textile fabric.
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(adj)
Puckery
astringent: tending to wrinkle
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary Cf. Poke, a bag, and Pock.
Hop-Pickle's off to a puckery start. ashingtonpost.com
FOR cooks of a lemon-loving persuasion, a puckery citrus curd is the culinary analogue of a chocolate fanatic's fudgy ganache. nytimes.com
Cuban sandwiches, take one: Blazing Onion, Chambers Bay Grill, Powerhouse Brewery and Panera serve puckery sandwiches full of pork. blog.thenewstribune.com
Nick Malgieri adds a puckery note to his gingersnap cookies by sandwiching them with a fresh lemon cream. foodandwine.com
Sometimes, you need just one lovingly crafted, ice-cold, puckery margarita at the end of a difficult day. ocweekly.com
There was a smile in his puckery eyes. "The Landloper" by
You have a little puckery frown between your eyes, whenever you look at Florence and me. "A Sweet Little Maid" by
If Pugwash had a watery mouth when he married, I guess it's pretty puckery by this time. "The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VIII (of X)" by
It was Fred who was the first to notice that the piece of cake he was devouring had a peculiar puckery taste. "The Rover Boys at Big Horn Ranch" by
Her mouth seemed to grow more puckery every moment, and she wondered whether it would ever be any better. "Ruby at School" by
It has a puckery taste till it, but no rasp. "The Boss of Wind River" by
The fruit is so puckery that it almost strangles one. "Trees Worth Knowing" by
It isn't a weakness, as your puckery, sour people pretend. "Folly as It Flies" by
There were fine, puckery lines at her eyes. "Local Color" by