Pucker

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.


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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pucker \Puck"er\, n.
     1. A fold; a wrinkle; a collection of folds.
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     2. A state of perplexity or anxiety; confusion; bother;
        agitation. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U. S.]
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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