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Meaning of mouth-puckeringly | Babel Free

Adverb CEFR C2

Definitions

So as to cause someone's mouth to pucker (become squeezed together).

Examples

“But it is the beer's mouthpuckeringly sour body that helps separate ⟳ it from tamer summer seasonals.”

“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.”

CEFR level

C2

Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

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See also

mouth-wateringly mouthily mouthingly mouthward mouthwards mouthwateringly

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