Definition of Puckered

1. Verb. (past of pucker) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Puckered

1. pucker [v] - See also: pucker

Lexicographical Neighbors of Puckered

pucherite
puchito
puchitos
puck
puck-handling
puck-out
puck bunnies
puck bunny
puck handling
puck palace
pucka
pucked
pucker
pucker up
puckerbush
puckered (current term)
puckered-up
puckered up
puckerer
puckerers
puckerier
puckeriest
puckering
puckering up
puckeringly
puckerings
puckeroo
puckers
puckers up
puckery

Literary usage of Puckered

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

1. Lip-reading Principles and Practise: A Hand-book for Teachers and for Self by Edward Bartlett Nitchie (1919)
"puckered VOWELS Long oo—puckered-Narrow 109. For the sound of long oo, as in "coon," the lips are drawn together or puckered, and the opening between the ..."

2. The Volta Review by Volta Bureau (U.S.), Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf (1913)
"Quickly spoken puckered vowels tend toward a medium degree of puckering ... Quickly spoken vowels, except accented puckered vowels, tend to become relaxed. ..."

3. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1891)
"... their situation being represented by slightly puckered scars. Both were in a fair way towards complete cure. Melancholy as was undoubtedly the state of ..."

4. The Log of the Snark by Charmian London, Snark (Ketch) (1915)
"fever, announced with concerned and puckered visage that we had kept no flour for ourselves. Martin exploded "Impossible!" But his search of the snug ..."

5. A New English-German and German-English Dictionary: Containing All the Words by Adolphus Bernays (1834)
"... (in singing) to trill, to quaver; (al the mint) to mill the coin. sort of lamp; a crisped or puckered piece of linen, puckered frill, puckered tucker, ..."

6. The Dublin Journal of Medical Science (1903)
"With the aid of a director when tying these sutures a puckered groove is formed, which projects backwards into the canal along its whole length. Fm. 2. ..."

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