PUCKERY

  

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PUCKERY

Definition: PUCKERY

PUCKERY

Adjective

1. Inclined to become puckered or wrinkled; full of puckers or wrinkles.

2. Producing, or tending to produce, a pucker; as, a puckery taste.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Modern Translation: PUCKERY

Language Translations for "PUCKERY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

набръчкан (contracted, furrowed, plicate, rugged, rugose, wrinkled, wrinkly), набран (frilly, full). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

redős (crinkly, frilled, puckered), kreppelt (puckered), könnyen gyűrődő, húzott (drawn, drew, puckered, shirred), gyűrődő, arcfintorítást okozó. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

(ash, puckery juice), 渋柿 (sour and puckery persimmon). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

しぶがき (sour and puckery persimmon), あく (evil, harsh taste, lye, puckery juice, to be less crowded, to become empty, to become open, to dawn, to open, wickedness). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

uckerypay

   

Ukrainian

  

зморщений (contracted, corrugated, creasy, puckered, pursy, shrunken, wrinkled). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

nhăn; l m nhăn. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "PUCKERY"

Words rhyming with "PUCKERY" (pronounced 'Puck"er*y'): Acceleratory, Antislavery, Apery, Archery, Ashery, Asseveratory, Averpenny, Babery, Baboonery, Bakery, Barkery, Belligerently, Bewitchery, bindery, Bleachery, Bloomery, Boilery, botcherly, botchery, Branchery, Bravery, Brewery, Bribery, Broidery, Buffoonery, Butcherly, Butchery, Cajolery, Chafery, Chicanery, Cholericly, Cinerary, Cleverly, Clouterly, Clownery, Coalery, Cocoonery, Collaterally, Commandery, Congeneracy, Considerably, Consideringly, Cookery, Covertly, Creamery, Crockery, Cutchery, Deanery, Debauchery, Degeneracy. (additional references)

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Anagrams: PUCKERY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-k-p-r-u-y"

-1 letter: pucker.

-2 letters: crepy, pecky, perky.

-3 letters: cuke, cure, ecru, peck, perk, prey, puce, puck, puke, pure, pyre, reck, ruck, ryke, yerk, yeuk, yuck.

-4 letters: cep, cry, cue, cup, cur, ecu, kep, key, kue, pec, per, pry, pur, pye, rec, rep, rue, rye, uke, yep, yuk, yup.

-5 letters: er, pe, re, up, ye.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-k-p-r-u-y"
 

+2 letters: cyberpunk.

 

+3 letters: cyberpunks, keypuncher.

 

+4 letters: keypunchers.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Rhymes
4. Anagrams
5. Bibliography


  

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