puckery (puker i)

[ Producing or tending to produce puckers: puckery taste (that is, a bitter or astringent taste such as may cause the mouth to pucker). Some of these wildings [apples] are acrid and puckery, genuine verjuice. Thoreau, Excursions, p. 291. There are plenty [of American proverbs) that have a more native and puckery flavor, seedlings from the old stock often, and yet new varieties. Lowell , Biglow Papers, 2d ser., Int. 2. Inclined to become puckered or wrinkled; full of puckers or wrinkles: said especially of a textile fabric. pucket (puk'et), n. [Origin obscure.] A nest of caterpillars. Hall i well. [Prov. Eng.] puckfist (puk'fist), n. [Also puckfoist; cf. LG. pukfust, a fist doubled up, pukken, strike, poke, + fust, fist.] 1. A niggardly or close fisted person. O, they are pinching puckfists ! B. Jonson , New Inn, iii. 1. Petrarch was a dunce, Dante a jig-maker, Sanazzar a goose, and Ariosto a puck - fist to me! Ford , Love's Sacrifice, ii. 1. For those are pinching puck foists , and suspicious. Fletcher ( and another ), Love's Pilgrimage, i. 1. 2. In bot . , a puffball. puckfoistt (puk'foist), n . Same as puckfist . puckish (puk'ish), a . [ puck + -ish1.] Resembling the fairy Puck; like what Puck might do; merry. J. R. Green . puckle (puk'l), n. [Prob. Pucrasia (pū-krāʼsi-ä), n. [NL. (G. R. Gray, 1841), habiting Asia in the Him a lay an region, China, and parts of India. The common puer as is: macrolopha; the buff-spotted is P. xanthospila; P. duvauceli is a species. pud1 (pud), n. [Perhaps orig. a slang form of D. poot, paw: see pawl.] A paw; fist; hand. [Colloq.] The kangaroos-your Aborigines-do they keep their primitive simplicity un-Europe-tainted, with those little short fore puds, looking like a le on framed by nature to the pickpocket? Lamb , Distant Correspondents. pud2 (pöd), п . Same as pood . puddening (pud'ning), n . [So called as mak ing as it were a pudding, i. e. a thick soft ma IMG:content-1262.png:[blocks in formation] Southron. ring of an anchor was so called. Also called pudding. pudder (pud'ér), v. [Also putter; dial. form of potter2 or pother.] I. in trans. To make a tumult, bustle, or stir; potter. Such as are least able are most busie to pudder in the rubbish, and to raise dust. N. Ward , Simple Cobler, p. 2. Some [fishes] almost alwayes pudder in the mud Of sleepy Pools. Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, i. 5. [Rare.] IMG:content-1263.png:[blocks in formation] bother. He that will improve every matter of fact into a maxim will abound in contrary observations, that can be of no other use but to perplex and pudder him if he compares them. Locke, Conduct of Understanding, § 13. meat baked in it. Three well larded pudding - pyes he hath at one time put to foyle. John Taylor , Works (1630). ( Nares .) Some cried the Covenant, instead Of pudding - pies and gingerbread. S. Butler, Hudibras, I. ii. 546. a confused noise; a bustle; pother. Some fellows would have cried now, and have curs'd thee, And faln out with their meat, and kept a pudder; But all this helps not. Beau, and Fl., Scornful Lady, ii. 2. What a pudder and racket.. in the schools of the learned about power and about spirit! Sterne, Tristram Shandy, ii. 2. Parkin's Pints has been mak in' a great pudder over to England. S. Judd , Margaret, i. 16.