Puckersome

She spun around, silk gliding silently across polished piano bench, and met them with a radiant, puckersome smile.

If you grow your own apples, or keep fresh apples bought from a farmer's market in cold storage, you'll notice that over time both cooking and dessert apples become less acid and more sweet: even a puckersome Bramley can develop into an eater, albeit a sharp one, by March.

The cranberry sides look both sweet and puckersome.

Take one bite of melon salad with mint, feta, and fiery harissa, or a sip of perfectly puckersome watermelonade and you'll be a convert.