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puckery

puckery adjective: very sour, so that the lips pucker. Also the obsolete form of puggry.

Adjective

puckery (comparative more puckery, superlative most puckery)

  1. Very sour, so that the lips pucker.
    • Taste and add more honey if needed; sauce should be tart but not puckery.2008 January 16, “Recipe: Seared Pork Chops With Kimchi”, in New York Times
  2. Inclined to become puckered or wrinkled; full of puckers or wrinkles.

Also used as

puckery is also the obsolete form of puggry.

Forms of puckery

Adjective
comparativemore puckery
superlativemost puckery
Noun
pluralpuckeries

Origin of puckery

From pucker + -y.

Words formed from puckery

Questions about puckery

What does puckery mean?
Puckery means very sour, so that the lips pucker.
What part of speech is puckery?
Puckery is an adjective.

Words near puckery in the dictionary

  1. puckerowing
  2. puckerows
  3. puckers
  4. puckers up
  5. puckersome
  6. puckery
  7. Puckett
  8. Puckette
  9. Puckettes
  10. puckfist
  11. puckfists

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