Pucker

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To gather into small wrinkles or folds: puckered my lips; puckered the curtains.
  • verb-intransitive. To become gathered, contracted, and wrinkled.
  • n. A wrinkle or wrinkled part, as in tightly stitched cloth.
  • n. A facial expression in which the lips are tightly pulled together and pushed outward.
  • n. A tart flavor that causes one's lips to pucker: the pucker of lemon.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To pinch or wrinkle; to squeeze inwardly, to dimple or fold.
  • n. A fold or wrinkle.
  • n. A state of perplexity or anxiety; confusion; bother; agitation.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To gather into small folds or wrinkles; to contract into ridges and furrows; to corrugate; -- often with up.
  • n. A fold; a wrinkle; a collection of folds.
  • n. A state of perplexity or anxiety; confusion; bother; agitation.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
  • n. A drawing or gathering into folds or wrinkles; an irregular folding or wrinkling; a collection of irregularly converging ridges or wrinkles.
  • n. A state of flutter, agitation, or confusion.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. draw together into folds or puckers
  • v. become wrinkled or drawn together
  • n. an irregular fold in an otherwise even surface (as in cloth)
  • v. to gather something into small wrinkles or folds
  • Verb Form
    puckered    puckering    puckers   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    sew    stitch    run up    sew together    scrunch    wrinkle    crinkle    crisp    ruckle    scrunch up   
    Form
    puckered    puckering    pucker up   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    corrugate    fold    wrinkle    confusion    bother    agitation   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Tucker    ducker    fucker    motherfucker    plucker    succor    sucker    trucker    tucker   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    crinkle    ruck    crease    coffee-stained    friz    cockle    chignon    vireo    corrugation    prickling