puckery
AmericanEtymology
Origin of puckery
Example Sentences
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Wood: I do have a similar facial structure to John, but he had a small puckery cute mouth.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 3, 2024
Roast chicken thighs with blueberries pack a bright, puckery punch.
From New York Times • Jul. 5, 2023
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
“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
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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