| 单词 | pucker-mouthed |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspucker-mouthed pucker-mouthed adj. U.S. having the lips pursed or drawn into a pucker; (figurative) disapproving, serious. ΚΠ 1831 H. R. Schoolcraft Jrnl. in Personal Mem. Resid. 30 Years Indian Tribes (1851) xxxix. 377 Mozojeed, the principal man, was a tall, not portly, red-mouthed, and pucker-mouthed man. 1832 Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pa.) 6 Nov. 2/2 This pucker-mouthed piety. 1926 Middletown (N.Y.) Daily Times-Press 3 Aug. 3/2 Miss de Putti is a pucker-mouthed, curvy sort of a vampire. 1992 N.Y. Times 23 Aug. viii. 11/1 ‘Now it's a very serious business,’ he said. ‘And everyone's running around pucker-mouthed trying to cheat everybody out of their money, instead of laughing and scratching like they used to.’ < as lemmas |
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