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- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
pucker \puck"er\, v. t. i. imp. p. p. puckered; p. pr.
vb. n. puckering. from poke a pocket, small bag.
to gather into small folds or wrinkles; to contract into
ridges and furrows; to corrugate; -- often with up; as, to
pucker up the mouth. "his skin was puckered up in
wrinkles." --spectator.
1913 webster
see also:
puckered puckering poke
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
pucker \puck"er\, n.
1. a fold; a wrinkle; a collection of folds.
1913 webster
2. a state of perplexity or anxiety; confusion; bother;
agitation. prov. eng. colloq. u. s.
1913 webster
- [3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
pucker
n : an irregular fold in an otherwise even surface as in cloth
syn: ruck
v 1: to gather something into small wrinkles or folds; "she
puckered her lips" syn: rumple, cockle, crumple,
knit
2: draw fabric together and sew it tightly syn: gather, tuck
3: become wrinkled or drawn together; "her lips puckered" syn:
ruck, ruck up
see also:
ruck rumple cockle crumple knit gather
tuck ruck up
- [4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
152 moby thesaurus words for "pucker":
abbreviate, agitation, all-overs, angst, anxiety, anxiety hysteria,
anxiety neurosis, anxious bench, anxious concern, anxious seat,
anxiousness, apprehension, apprehensiveness, befuddlement,
bewilderment, bother, botheration, cankerworm of care, care, chaos,
circumscribe, cloud, coarct, cocker, cockle, compact, compress,
concentrate, concern, concernment, condense, confusion,
consolidate, constrict, constringe, contract, corrugate,
corrugation, cramp, crankle, crease, crimp, crimple, crinkle,
crinkling, crumple, curtail, daze, decrease, discombobulation,
discomfiture, discomposure, disconcertion, disorder,
disorganization, disorientation, disquiet, disquietude, distress,
disturbance, dither, draw, draw in, draw together, dread,
embarrassment, fear, flap, flummox, flurry, fluster, flusteration,
flustration, flutter, fog, fold, foofaraw, foreboding,
forebodingness, frenzy, fret, fuddle, fuddlement, furrow, fuss,
gather, haze, inquietude, jumble, knit, knot, lather, malaise,
maze, mess, misgiving, mist, muddle, muddlement, narrow,
nervous strain, nervous tension, nervousness, overanxiety,
perplexity, perturbation, pins and needles, pleat, pother,
pucker up, purse, reduce, ridge, rimple, ripple, rivel, ruche,
ruck, ruckle, ruffle, rumple, screw up, shirr, shirring, shorten,
shuffle, solicitude, solidify, squeeze, stew, strain, strangle,
strangulate, suspense, sweat, swivet, tension, tighten, tizzy,
trouble, tuck, twitter, twitteration, uneasiness, unquietness,
unsettlement, upset, vexation, wimple, wrinkle, wrinkling, zeal
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