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Puckery

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Puckery
    Inclined to become puckered or wrinkled; full of puckers or wrinkles.
  2. Puckery
    Producing, or tending to produce, a pucker; as, a puckery taste.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. 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).
  2. puckery
    Inclined to become puckered or wrinkled; full of puckers or wrinkles: said especially of a textile fabric.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (adj) Puckery
    astringent: tending to wrinkle
Etymology

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary Cf. Poke, a bag, and Pock.

Usage in the news

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

Usage in literature

There was a smile in his puckery eyes. "The Landloper" by Holman Day

You have a little puckery frown between your eyes, whenever you look at Florence and me. "A Sweet Little Maid" by Amy E. Blanchard

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 Various

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 Edward Stratemeyer

Her mouth seemed to grow more puckery every moment, and she wondered whether it would ever be any better. "Ruby at School" by Minnie E. Paull

It has a puckery taste till it, but no rasp. "The Boss of Wind River" by A. M. Chisholm

The fruit is so puckery that it almost strangles one. "Trees Worth Knowing" by Julia Ellen Rogers

It isn't a weakness, as your puckery, sour people pretend. "Folly as It Flies" by Fanny Fern

There were fine, puckery lines at her eyes. "Local Color" by Irvin S. Cobb