"puckery" meaning in English

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Adjective

Forms: more puckery [comparative], most puckery [superlative]
Etymology: pucker + -y Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|pucker|y}} pucker + -y Head templates: {{en-adj}} puckery (comparative more puckery, superlative most puckery)
  1. Very sour, so that the lips pucker.
    Sense id: en-puckery-en-adj-w~qynJRU
  2. Inclined to become puckered or wrinkled; full of puckers or wrinkles.
    Sense id: en-puckery-en-adj-hFv7jGkF Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -y Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 4 54 42 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -y: 22 78
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun

Forms: puckeries [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} puckery (plural puckeries)
  1. Obsolete form of puggry. Tags: alt-of, obsolete Alternative form of: puggry
    Sense id: en-puckery-en-noun-4PbH3X2l
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

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