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Puckery   Listen
adjective
Puckery  adj.  
1.
Producing, or tending to produce, a pucker; as, a puckery taste.
2.
Inclined to become puckered or wrinkled; full of puckers or wrinkles.





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"Puckery" Quotes from Famous Books



... popularity which I am pleased to find these bucolic strains have attained unto. If I know myself, I am measurably free from the itch of vanity; yet I may be allowed to say that I was not backward to recognize in them a certain wild, puckery, acidulous (sometimes even verging toward that point which, in our rustic phrase, is termed shut-eye) flavour, not wholly unpleasing, nor unwholesome, to palates cloyed with the sugariness of tamed and cultivated ...
— The Biglow Papers • James Russell Lowell
... thought that these soft ones were n't good," said Ruby, in dismay, "and I have gathered only these old puckery ones. I could not think what you picked up the ...
— Ruby at School • Minnie E. Paull


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