puckery

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One puckery, cloying bite scorched the throats of the testers and caused at least one to skip dinner that night.

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  1. 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). Some of these wildings [apples] are acrid and puckery, genuine verjuice. Thoreau, Excursions, p. 291. There are plenty [of American proverbs] that have a more native and puckery flavor, seedlings from the old stock often, and yet new varieties. Lowell, Biglow Papers, 2d ser., Int.
  2. Inclined to become puckered or wrinkled; full of puckers or wrinkles: said especially of a textile fabric.

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  • Satisfies that fabulous need for something a little puckery. —  MinJungKim.com
  • A puckery little grille provides the main Hyundai styling cue. —  Automotive Headlines
  • It was too puckery and I wasn't leaving long enough floats between the needles and I was doing that wrap thing too often across long sections and it was not pretty. —  Knitting the Blues
  • The puckery impression left in flesh by the waistband of a garment, esp. wet bathing trunks. —  MetaFilter
  • Tannins evident only as a slight puckery quality in the long, juicy-cherry finish. —  The New Wine Consumer: Wine Brands
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