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mouth-puckeringly

mouth-puckeringly adverb: so as to cause someone's mouth to pucker (become squeezed together).

Adverb

mouth-puckeringly (comparative more mouth-puckeringly, superlative most mouth-puckeringly)

  1. So as to cause someone's mouth to pucker (become squeezed together).
    • But it is the beer's mouthpuckeringly sour body that helps separate it from tamer summer seasonals.2010, Andy Crouch, Great American Craft Beer: A Guide to the Nation's Finest Beers and Breweries, Philadelphia, P.A.: Running Press, →ISBN, page 84
    • It's a mouth-puckeringly tart movie that's tonally in a world of its own – darkly disturbing, absurd, brutal and silly, with a batsqueak of bonkers.2019 November 21, Cath Clarke, “Judy & Punch review – brutal and brilliantly bizarre #MeToo fairytale”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived...

Forms of mouth-puckeringly

comparativemore mouth-puckeringly
superlativemost mouth-puckeringly
alternative formmouthpuckeringly

Origin of mouth-puckeringly

From mouth-puckering + -ly.

Questions about mouth-puckeringly

What does mouth-puckeringly mean?
Mouth-puckeringly means so as to cause someone's mouth to pucker (become squeezed together).
What part of speech is mouth-puckeringly?
Mouth-puckeringly is an adverb.

Words near mouth-puckeringly in the dictionary

  1. mouth-gasms
  2. mouth-organ
  3. mouth-organs
  4. mouth-part
  5. mouth-parts
  6. mouth-puckeringly
  7. mouth-pussies
  8. mouth-pussy
  9. mouth-soaping
  10. mouth-to-mouth
  11. mouth-to-mouth resuscitation

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