Pucker
['pʌkə] or ['pʌkɚ]
Definition
(noun.) an irregular fold in an otherwise even surface (as in cloth).
(verb.) to gather something into small wrinkles or folds; 'She puckered her lips'.
(verb.) become wrinkled or drawn together; 'her lips puckered'.
Inputed by Bess--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t. & i.) To gather into small folds or wrinkles; to contract into ridges and furrows; to corrugate; -- often with up; as, to pucker up the mouth.
(n.) A fold; a wrinkle; a collection of folds.
(n.) A state of perplexity or anxiety; confusion; bother; agitation.
Checked by Leon
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Corrugate, cockle, wrinkle, gather into wrinkles or folds.
n. [1]. Fold, wrinkle.[2]. [Vulgar.] Confusion, bother, perplexity, agitation, flurry, bustle, flutter, excitement, discomposure, fever, fret, tremor, perturbation, FUSS.
Inputed by Cleo
Definition
v.t. to gather into folds: to wrinkle.—n. a fold or wrinkle: a number of folds or wrinkles esp. irregular ones: (coll.) agitation confusion.—adj. Puck′ery astringent: tending to wrinkle.
Checker: Sigmund
Examples
- Then your eyes ceased to pucker, but you continued to look across, and your face was thoughtful. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- When I at last drew him down on to the sofa, his mouth and eyelids were all puckered on one side, and I saw that he had a stroke. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Suddenly her face puckered, her brow was knit with thought, she seemed twisted in troublesome effort for utterance. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Sherlock Holmes stopped in front of it with his head on one side and looked it all over, with his eyes shining brightly between puckered lids. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- He peered at me with great curiosity in his puckered eyes. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- He looks like a skinned rabbit with a puckered-up old-man's face. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Then she puckered those divine brows of hers, and shook her head. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- She drew herself up, puckered her black eyebrows, but still looked puzzled. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- But he saw her long gentle face puckering into tears, and felt ashamed of the useless pain he was inflicting. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
Edited by Lelia