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Pucker is defined as to draw up into wrinkles or small folds.

(verb)

An example of pucker is to draw the lips together before a kiss.

The definition of a pucker is a gathering of wrinkles or small folds.

(noun)

An example of a pucker is the face a person makes while eating a lemon.
An example of a pucker is a small fold sewn into the seam of a blouse.

See pucker in Webster's New World College Dictionary

transitive verb, intransitive verb

to draw up or gather into wrinkles or small folds

Origin: freq. form of poke

noun

a wrinkle or small fold made by puckering

See pucker in American Heritage Dictionary 4

verb puck·ered, puck·er·ing, puck·ers

verb, transitive

To gather into small wrinkles or folds: puckered my lips; puckered the curtains.

verb, intransitive

To become gathered, contracted, and wrinkled.

noun

A wrinkle or wrinkled part, as in tightly stitched cloth.
A facial expression in which the lips are tightly pulled together and pushed outward.
A tart flavor that causes one's lips to pucker: the pucker of lemon.

Origin:

Origin: Probably frequentative of dialectal pock, bag, sack

Origin: , variant of poke³

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