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pucker (pukər)

transitive verb, intransitive verb

to draw up or gather into wrinkles or small folds

Etymology: freq. form of poke

noun

a wrinkle or small fold made by puckering

pucker Idioms

pucker up

to contract the lips as in preparing to kiss

pucker Synonyms

pucker

n.

pucker Synonyms

pucker

v.

pucker Usage Examples

Object

  • lip: Remember to really put some effort into exhaling through your puckered lips.
  • eye: He peered at me with great curiosity in his puckered eyes.
  • brow: One hit the " poet " on the shoulder, and the result he for a moment gingerly surveyed with puckered brows.
  • mouth: The puckered little mouth with too much lipstick became a dripping, gaping maw, with needle-sharp teeth the size of bayonet blades.
  • amplitude: After some reading of W. Saenger's book, vague memories of puckering amplitudes surfaced up ( from my dark past on cyclodextrins.. .
  • skin: His face was a volcano of puckered skin and shriveled puce.

Adjective modifier

  • worried: Which promise made the young man more cheerful and smoothed out the worried pucker between channel 5 news Sacharissa's straight brows.
  • little: A little pucker uses just two muscles around the lips.

Modifies a noun

  • restraint: The torsion name " PPA " stands for the pseudorotation phase angle and is used for the sugar pucker restraints.

Modifying Another Word

  • up: It was the sort of nasty niff that puckers up all your orifices.
  • slightly: Some of the joints were dry, all looked slightly puckered on top ( not how it looks when too cold ).
  • really: But when it came to a really pucker business or even marketing strategy that's where the really big area of weakness showed up.
  • not: The mouth comes wide open just like this, not puckered up.

Noun used with modifier

  • sugar: DNA looks fine and you cannot really distinguish sugar puckers.

Followed by an intransitive particle

  • up: What better reason to find someone to pucker up with?

Browse dictionary entries near pucker

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  1. puckery
  2. puckish
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  4. pudding
  5. puddingstone
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  7. puddling
  8. puddly
  9. pudency
  10. pudendum