puckery
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Origin of puckery
Example Sentences
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Sweet-and-sour housemade pickles with lots of onion and notes of bay leaf ideally cleanse the fried-chicken palate, as do sweeter-side marinated vegetables or the puckery dipping vinegar.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 30, 2022
And olive oil, which takes the place of usual butter in shortbread, also made its way into the lemon curd, to round out all the puckery sourness.
From Salon ● Dec. 12, 2021
The middle layer is lemon curd, homemade or store-bought, but puckery — it’s got to be sharp.
From New York Times ● Nov. 25, 2020
Admony’s farro salad, drawing on her Iranian roots, works beautifully with the pot roast, cutting through the fattiness with crunchy, tart bites of apple, juicy, puckery pomegranate and sweet, caramelized bits of roasted persimmon.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 19, 2019
There was the puckery taste that almost made me cry when I ate my first half-ripe persimmon.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
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