mouth-puckeringly

adverb

So as to cause someone's mouth to pucker (become squeezed together).

Meanings

adverbmouth-puckeringly (comparative more mouth-puckeringly, superlative most mouth-puckeringly)

comparative more mouth-puckeringly · superlative most mouth-puckeringly · alternative mouthpuckeringly

  1. So as to cause someone's mouth to pucker (become squeezed together).

    But it is the beer's mouthpuckeringly sour body that helps separate it from tamer summer seasonals.

    2010, Andy Crouch, Great American Craft Beer: A Guide to the Nation's Finest Beers and Breweries, Philadelphia, P.A.: Running Press, →ISBN, page 84
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    It's a mouth-puckeringly tart movie that's tonally in a world of its own – darkly disturbing, absurd, brutal and silly, with a batsqueak of bonkers.

    2019 November 21, Cath Clarke, “Judy & Punch review – brutal and brilliantly bizarre #MeToo fairytale”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 Jul 2022

Origin

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APA

mouth-puckeringly. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mouth-puckeringly

MLA

“mouth-puckeringly.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mouth-puckeringly. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “mouth-puckeringly,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mouth-puckeringly.

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