Lexic.us

Definition of Pucker

1. Noun. An irregular fold in an otherwise even surface (as in cloth).

2. Verb. To gather something into small wrinkles or folds. "They pucker the sheets"; "She puckered her lips"

3. Verb. Draw together into folds or puckers.

4. Verb. Become wrinkled or drawn together. "The sheets didn't pucker"; "Her lips puckered"

Definition of Pucker

1. v. t. & i. To gather into small folds or wrinkles; to contract into ridges and furrows; to corrugate; -- often with up; as, to pucker up the mouth.

2. n. A fold; a wrinkle; a collection of folds.

Definition of Pucker

1. Verb. To pinch or wrinkle; to squeeze inwardly, to dimple or fold. ¹

2. Noun. A fold or wrinkle. ¹

3. Noun. A state of perplexity or anxiety; confusion; bother; agitation. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Pucker

1. to gather into small wrinkles or folds [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pucker

pucerons puces pucest pucherite puchito puchitos puck puck-handling puck-out puck bunnies

puck bunny puck handling puck palace pucka pucked pucker (current term) pucker up puckerbush puckered puckered-up

puckered up puckerer puckerers puckerier puckeriest puckering puckering up puckeringly puckerings puckeroo

Literary usage of Pucker

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1902)
"He was IN such л pucker about her. 1883. PAYN, Thicker than Water, xiii. Mary's letters, therefore, were among the few things that did not agitate Mrs. ..."

2. Duffy's Hibernian Magazine: A Monthly Journal of Legends, Tales, and Stories (1861)
"ALLOW me to say one word, Mrs. pucker " Such were the words unexpectedly heard by ... It was the voice of Mrs. pucker ! From the first hour of my arrival in ..."

3. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1904)
"It will be found that there is no need to interrupt the stitch at any point, for there is no tendency on the part of the sutured edges to pucker when the ..."

4. The Life and Writings of Major Jack Downing [pseud.] of Downingville: Away by Seba] [Smith (1834)
"... because the President did n't come, and tells what a terrible pucker ant Keziah teas in about it. ..."

5. The Life and Writings of Major Jack Downing: Pseud. of Downingville, Away by Seba Smith (1834)
"... because the President did n't come, and tells what a terrible pucker ant Keziah was in about it. ..."

6. Our Young Folks by John Townsend Trowbridge, Lucy Larcom, Gail Hamilton (1872)
"With one hand he clutched Prince pucker by the collar of his nightgown, whirled him out of bed, and applied the instrument of discipline with such force and ..."

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