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Definition of Puckered-up
1. Adjective. (context: of features of the face) contracted so as to form wrinkles. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Puckered-up
Literary usage of Puckered-up
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the Ojibways, Based Upon Traditions and Oral Statements by William Whipple Warren, Edward Duffield Niell (1885)
"... To roast till puckered up." It is well authenticated by their traditions, and
by the writings of their early white discoverers, that before they became ..."
2. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1878)
"... that time the apple has shrunk in size, the fruit having contracted within
the skin, which, no longer tight and glossy, is now wrinkled and puckered up. ..."
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