What is "puckery"

Usage examples of "puckery".

We sat at the bar for the first hour while Dolan downed three Manhattans and I sipped at a puckery white wine that I diluted with ice.

Her arm had a puckery scar that looked old, well-healed, but no soreness, even when she raised it high overhead.

Big bland blue eyes, and a snub nose and a puckery little mouth, and two chins.

Some do and that makes it confusing, but Miss Kimberly is old and I do not think she wants me to see the pink puckery things in among the sheets and towels.

Manhattans and I sipped at a puckery white wine that I diluted with ice.

Her tongue stuck to her palate and a puckery feeling filled her whole mouth.

She only saw the cave where they left the craft, and the permacrete pillbox that covered the shaft head itself, because of the puckery masses of dimples fast fading in the blowing snow.

Tea, made by prolonged stewing on the back of the stove, owes its bitter, puckery taste to tannin, and is better suited for tanning leather than for putting into the human stomach.

Nor had they invited more of their little puckery relatives to join them.

Then he tore his mouth from her lips and kissed a path downward, reveling in the salty taste of her skin, the smooth slope of breast ending in the puckery nipple.

The smile scampered from his wrinkled face, replaced by a puckery scowl.

Rather, they have a very fine grade of tannin, which in the past could make wines so puckery they went down like liquid nails.

Third, the texture of the wine changes as the puckery tannins interact and round off, making the wine more supple.

By listening to these little conversations, you can discover just how smooth or how puckery you want your wines to be.

Rough, puckery young red wines can age into supple, subtly flavorful, pleasing liquids.