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pucker
[ puhk-er ]
verb (used with or without object)
- to draw or gather into wrinkles or irregular folds, as material or a part of the face; constrict:
Worry puckered his brow.
noun
- a wrinkle; an irregular fold.
- a puckered part, as of cloth tightly or crookedly sewn.
- Archaic. a state of agitation or perturbation.
pucker
/ ˈpʌkə /
verb
- to gather or contract (a soft surface such as the skin of the face) into wrinkles or folds, or (of such a surface) to be so gathered or contracted
noun
- a wrinkle, crease, or irregular fold
Other Words From
- pucker·er noun
- un·puckered adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of pucker1
Example Sentences
A server pours rum over the sphere and ignites it, causing the orb to melt and revealing the main attraction, plus some pucker from passion fruit.
Cranberry sauce should be sweet but not cloying, and tart without causing pucker and anguish.
She is the author of two young adult novels, The Map That Breathed and Pucker.
On this occasion, however, it failed to produce anything more than a woebegone pucker that foreshadowed something worse.
But how about the pucker along your spine, and the awfully foolish, grinny feeling around your cheek-bones?
Joan thought hard for a minute, with a pucker in her white brow.
Aunt Betsy said she feared they had not sewed the braid on straight or the pants wouldn't pucker so at the knees.
Elizabeth looked up with a worried pucker between her girlish brows.
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