pucker
to draw or gather into wrinkles or irregular folds, as material or a part of the face; constrict: Worry puckered his brow.
a wrinkle; an irregular fold.
a puckered part, as of cloth tightly or crookedly sewn.
Archaic. a state of agitation or perturbation.
Origin of pucker
1Other words from pucker
- puck·er·er, noun
- un·puck·ered, adjective
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How to use pucker in a sentence
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?
Molly Make-Believe | Eleanor Hallowell AbbottJoan thought hard for a minute, with a pucker in her white brow.
Two Little Travellers | Frances Browne Arthur
Aunt Betsy said she feared they had not sewed the braid on straight or the pants wouldn't pucker so at the knees.
Watch Yourself Go By | Al. G. FieldElizabeth looked up with a worried pucker between her girlish brows.
And So They Were Married | Florence Morse Kingsley
British Dictionary definitions for pucker
/ (ˈpʌkə) /
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
a wrinkle, crease, or irregular fold
Origin of pucker
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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