Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- 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).
- Inclined to become puckered or wrinkled; full of puckers or wrinkles: said especially of a textile fabric.
Wiktionary
- adj. Very sour, so that the lips pucker.
- adj. Inclined to become puckered or wrinkled; full of puckers or wrinkles.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Producing, or tending to produce, a pucker.
- adj. Inclined to become puckered or wrinkled; full of puckers or wrinkles.
Etymologies
- pucker + -y (Wiktionary)
Examples
“If the dressing is too puckery for you, add a drizzle of honey.”
“OK, between your gorgeous Kirbys and Ann's puckery carrots, you guys are making a pregger lady drool on her keyboard over here!”
“I quickly slurp up my yogurt covered with sticky red syrup, which actually tastes okay, except for the puckery effect of the pomegranate.”
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“With an I just wolfed a whole bowl of super sour lemons puckery smile, she asks, Portia, what do you think the solution is?”
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“How, you ask, could this bitter, puckery fruit morph into delicious ice cream?”
“The puckery twang of the cranberries tempers the sugary onslaught of the toffee in a marvelous way.”
“The creamy roasted sweetness of the vegetable puree is set off perfectly by the puckery bitter/sour garnish.”
“We both agreed that the tart would have been better if made with Meyer lemons, not the ordinary, super-puckery sort.”
“But not to old Ray: forget about violent attacks on bus drivers, it is those pesky cats that really gets up his tight, puckery arse.”
“Nice and puckery, but I like the citrus flavors better.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘puckery’.
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CULI - wine-tasting adjectives
In this area of expertise nouns are frequently used as adjectives (almond, bacon, cider, diesel, fennel, fresh-cut hay, wool) or new adjectives are formed (appley, berrylike, citrusy, full-bodied, ...
acetic, acidic, aged, angular, appley, astringent, attractive, austere, berrylike, big, bitter, brawny and 511 more...
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phrontistery - p
from phrontistery.info
pabouche, pabulous, pabulum, pacable, pace, pachydermia, pachyglossal, pachymeter, pachynsis, paciferous, pacificate, pactolian and 1766 more...
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iRosaceae
An ode to apples. I am much indebted to 'Wild Apples' which, though probably not likely to change your life and improve your productivity at the sausage factory, will enthrall you with half an hou...
rosaceae, apple, maelon, crab, jonathon, eden, temptation, clan lamont, eye, sward, pomona, granny smith and 135 more...
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reesetee Oooh, I like this word. It's all...tart. :-) Dec 14, 2007
bilby "What if some of these wildings are acrid and puckery, genuine verjuice, do they not still belong to the Pomaceae, which are uniformly innocent and kind to our race? I still begrudge them to the cider-mill. Perhaps they are not fairly ripe yet." - 'Wild Apples', Henry David Thoreau. Dec 14, 2007