pucker
pucker
Definition
pucker (puk′ər)
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 up
to contract the lips as in preparing to kiss
pucker
Synonyms
pucker
Synonyms
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?
