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Pickery vs Puckery - What's the difference?

pickery | puckery |

As a noun pickery

is a place where cotton is picked.

As an adjective puckery is

very sour, so that the lips pucker.

pickery

English

Noun

(pickeries)
  • A place where cotton is picked.
  • (Scotland) petty theft
    • (Holinshed)
    (Webster 1913)

    puckery

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Very sour, so that the lips pucker.
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  • Inclined to become puckered or wrinkled; full of puckers or wrinkles.