Puckered

3 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 WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  puckered
       adj : (used of the skin of the face) contracted into wrinkles; "a
             puckered-up mouth waiting to be kissed"; "her
             mischievous puckered nose" [syn: {puckered-up}]

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

  42 Moby Thesaurus words for "puckered":
     clamped, cockled, cockly, compressed, concentrated, condensed,
     consolidated, constricted, contracted, corrugate, corrugated,
     cramped, creased, crimped, crimpy, crinkled, crinkly, crumpled,
     furrowed, knitted, knotted, nipped, pinched, pinched-in, puckery,
     pursed, pursy, ridged, rimpled, rippled, rucked, rugged, rugose,
     rugous, rumpled, solidified, squeezed, strangled, strangulated,
     wasp-waisted, wrinkled, wrinkly