Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To gather into small wrinkles or folds.
- intransitive verb To become gathered, contracted, and wrinkled.
- noun A wrinkle or wrinkled part, as in tightly stitched cloth.
- noun A facial expression in which the lips are tightly pulled together and pushed outward.
- noun A tart flavor that causes one's lips to pucker.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To draw up or contract into irregular folds or wrinkles; specifically, in sewing, to gather: often followed by up: as, to
pucker cloth in sewing. - To become irregularly ridged or wrinkled: as, his face puckered up into a smile; the mouth puckers on eating choke-cherries.
- noun A drawing or gathering into folds or wrinkles; an irregular folding or wrinkling; a collection of irregularly converging ridges or wrinkles.
- noun A state of flutter, agitation, or confusion.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A fold; a wrinkle; a collection of folds.
- noun Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U. S. A state of perplexity or anxiety; confusion; bother; agitation.
- verb To gather into small folds or wrinkles; to contract into ridges and furrows; to corrugate; -- often with
up .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
pinch orwrinkle ; tosqueeze inwardly, todimple orfold . - noun A
fold or wrinkle. - noun A state of
perplexity oranxiety ;confusion ;bother ;agitation .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb draw together into folds or puckers
- verb become wrinkled or drawn together
- noun an irregular fold in an otherwise even surface (as in cloth)
- verb to gather something into small wrinkles or folds
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Its as close to the "pucker" factor as I hope to come.
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Its as close to the "pucker" factor as I hope to come.
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Canadian men confess to some "pucker," but all's well that ends well
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Canadian men confess to some "pucker," but all's well that ends well
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Canadian men confess to some "pucker," but all's well that ends well
Macleans.ca macleans.ca 2010
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Canadian men confess to some "pucker," but all's well that ends well
Macleans.ca macleans.ca 2010
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Canadian men confess to some "pucker," but all's well that ends well
Macleans.ca macleans.ca 2010
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Canadian men confess to some "pucker," but all's well that ends well
Macleans.ca macleans.ca 2010
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Canadian men confess to some "pucker," but all's well that ends well
Macleans.ca macleans.ca 2010
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And that decision - whether to commit to a tricky section or "pucker" and dismount - may be the lasting legacy of the 2009 BC Bike Race's opening stage.
yarb commented on the word pucker
...most difficult sound
is 'oo' cos your lips
will want to pucker
and form a little
round hole...
- Peter Reading, 5x5x5x5x5, 1983
July 4, 2008