mouth-puckeringly
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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From mouth-puckering + -ly.
Adverb
mouth-puckeringly (comparative more mouth-puckeringly, superlative most mouth-puckeringly)
- 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.