puckersome
puckersome adjective: characterised or marked by puckering.
Adjective
puckersome (comparative more puckersome, superlative most puckersome)
- Characterised or marked by puckering
- She spun around, silk gliding silently across polished piano bench, and met them with a radiant, puckersome smile.1970, David Quammen, To walk the line: a novel
- If you grow your own apples, or keep fresh apples bought from a farmer's market in cold storage, you'll notice that over time both cooking and dessert apples become less acid and more sweet: even a puckersome Bramley can develop into an eater, albeit a sharp one, by March.2012, Niki Segnit, The Flavor Thesaurus
Examples of puckersome in a sentence
- The cranberry sides look both sweet and puckersome.2014, Sarah Platanitis, Perfect plates: Foodies take photos of their Thanksgiving meals:
- Take one bite of melon salad with mint, feta, and fiery harissa, or a sip of perfectly puckersome watermelonade and you'll be a convert.2015 July 20, Riddley Gemperlein-Schirm, The Week, archived from the original on 21 Sep 2016:
Forms of puckersome
| comparative | more puckersome |
|---|---|
| superlative | most puckersome |
Origin of puckersome
From pucker + -some.
Questions about puckersome
- What does puckersome mean?
- Puckersome means characterised or marked by puckering.
- How do you use puckersome in a sentence?
- The cranberry sides look both sweet and puckersome.
- What part of speech is puckersome?
- Puckersome is an adjective.
Words near puckersome in the dictionary
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