puckery

[Eng. pucker; -y.] 1. Producing, or tending to produce, puckers. 2. Full of puckers or wrinkles; inclined to become puckered or wrinkled. puck-fist, puck-foist, s . (A corruption of Ger. bofista puff-ball.] 1. ( Of the form puckfist): A puff-ball (q. v.). 2. ( Of both forms): A term of reproach, equiva lent to "vile fungus," "scum of the earth." ( Nares .) "O they are pinching puckfists ." Ben Jonson: New Inn. IMG:content-1706.png:[blocks in formation] 1603.)