puckery
AmericanEtymology
Origin of puckery
Example Sentences
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Red onions for their bite, scallions for their grassy brightness, pickled onions for a puckery jolt of acid.
From Salon • Mar. 19, 2025
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
The wines were more puckery and astringent and less enjoyable.
From New York Times • Jan. 27, 2022
“Pickling mellows the grassiness that fresh peppers can sometimes have,” my colleague Aaron Hutcherson wrote recently in an appreciation of pickled jalapeños, noting that the brine lends a puckery pep to the pickled vegetable’s warmth.
From Washington Post • Sep. 28, 2021
Neighbor women do still come calling to offer little gifts, a hand of bananas or an orange for the baby to suck on and make us laugh at his puckery face.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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