mouth-puckeringly

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Etymology[edit]

From mouth-puckering +‎ -ly.

Adverb[edit]

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

  1. So as to cause someone's mouth to pucker (become squeezed together).
    • 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:
      But it is the beer's mouthpuckeringly sour body that helps separate it from tamer summer seasonals.
    • 2019 November 21, Cath Clarke, “Judy & Punch review – brutal and brilliantly bizarre #MeToo fairytale”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian[1], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-07-07:
      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.

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