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Pucker   /pˈəkər/   Listen
noun
Pucker  n.  
1.
A fold; a wrinkle; a collection of folds.
2.
A state of perplexity or anxiety; confusion; bother; agitation. (Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U. S.)


verb
Pucker  v. t. & v. i.  (past & past part. puckered; pres. part. puckering)  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."





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"Pucker" Quotes from Famous Books



... drew a tightening to her lips, and the pucker of a frown between her eyes, and she sat Peter down beside her and looked over the valley to the black forest, in the heart of which was ...
— The Country Beyond - A Romance of the Wilderness • James Oliver Curwood
... Martha Foote, in the doorway, gazed serenely back upon her. And Geisha McCoy's quick intelligence and drama-sense responded to the picture of this calm and capable figure in the midst of the feverish, over-lighted, over-heated room. In that moment the nervous pucker between her eyes ironed out ever so little, and something resembling a wan smile crept into her face. And what ...
— Cheerful--By Request • Edna Ferber
... of her hand; there was a pucker of anxiety between her eyes. What had Kettering said to Christine? she asked herself in sudden panic. Surely he had not broken his word to her. She dismissed the thought with a ...
— The Second Honeymoon • Ruby M. Ayres
... fear lest some hungrier soul should get to the bushes first, that caused one member of our party to recklessly cram his mouth with what he thought would be most excellent fruit. But alas! things are not what they seem. He began to pucker his mouth and cough in the most violent manner. "Choke cherries, choke cherries," he repeated between broken coughs; these cherries were evidently named by one who knew the right word for them. This fruit is extremely attractive ...
— See America First • Orville O. Hiestand
... also Ethel's pupil, but learning was not at all in her line; and the sight of "Cobwebs to catch Flies," or of the venerated "Little Charles," were the most serious clouds, that made the Daisy pucker up her face, and infuse a whine into ...
— The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations • Charlotte Yonge


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