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puckersome en · ADJ

Etymology

From pucker + -some.

Meanings

1. Characterised or marked by puckering
   • The cranberry sides look both sweet and puckersome. 2014, Sarah Platanitis, Perfect plates: Foodies take photos of their Thanksgiving meals:
   • She spun around, silk gliding silently across polished piano bench, and met them with a radiant, puckersome smile. 1970, David Quammen, To walk the line: a novel:
   • Take one bite of melon salad with mint, feta, and fiery harissa, or a sip of perfectly puckersome watermelonade and you'll be a convert. 2015 July 20, Riddley Gemperlein-Schirm, The Week, archived from the original on 21 Sep 2016:
   • If you grow your own apples, or keep fresh apples bought from a farmer's market in cold storage, you'll notice that over time both cooking and dessert apples become less acid and more sweet: even a puckersome Bramley can develop into an eater, albeit a sharp one, by March. 2012, Niki Segnit, The Flavor Thesaurus:

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