Pucker Definition

pŭkər
puckered, puckering, puckers
verb
puckered, puckering, puckers
To draw up or gather into wrinkles or small folds.
Webster's New World
To become gathered, contracted, and wrinkled.
American Heritage
Antonyms:
noun
puckers
A wrinkle or wrinkled part, as in tightly stitched cloth.
American Heritage
A wrinkle or small fold made by puckering.
Webster's New World
A facial expression in which the lips are tightly pulled together and pushed outward.
American Heritage
A tart flavor that causes one's lips to pucker.
The pucker of lemon.
American Heritage
1874 "What a pucker everything is in!" said Bathsheba, discontentedly when the child had gone. "Get away, Maryann, or go on with your scrubbing, or do something! You ought to be married by this time, and not here troubling me!" "” Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd.
Wiktionary
Antonyms:
idiom
pucker up
  • to contract the lips as in preparing to kiss
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Pucker

Noun

Singular:
pucker
Plural:
puckers

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Pucker

Origin of Pucker

  • Probable alteration of poke (verb, or the noun meaning "a small bag").

    From Wiktionary

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