pucker

puck·er

P0647300 (pŭk′ər)v. puck·ered, puck·er·ing, puck·ers v.tr. To gather into small wrinkles or folds: puckered my lips; puckered the curtains.v.intr. To become gathered, contracted, and wrinkled.n.1. A wrinkle or wrinkled part, as in tightly stitched cloth.2. A facial expression in which the lips are tightly pulled together and pushed outward.3. A tart flavor that causes one's lips to pucker: the pucker of lemon.

[ Probably frequentative of dialectal pock, bag, sack, variant of poke.]

pucker

(ˈpʌkə) vbto gather or contract (a soft surface such as the skin of the face) into wrinkles or folds, or (of such a surface) to be so gathered or contractedna wrinkle, crease, or irregular fold[C16: perhaps related to poke², from the creasing into baglike wrinkles]

puck•er

(ˈpʌk ər)

v.t., v.i. 1. to draw or gather into wrinkles or irregular folds; constrict. n. 2. an irregular fold; wrinkle. 3. a puckered part, as of cloth tightly or crookedly sewn. [1590–1600; appar. akin to poke²] puck′er•er, n. puck′er•y, adj.

pucker

- Has the underlying notion of being formed into "pockets."See also related terms for pockets.

pucker

Past participle: puckered
Gerund: puckering

Imperative
pucker
pucker

Present
I pucker
you pucker
he/she/it puckers
we pucker
you pucker
they pucker

Preterite
I puckered
you puckered
he/she/it puckered
we puckered
you puckered
they puckered

Present Continuous
I am puckering
you are puckering
he/she/it is puckering
we are puckering
you are puckering
they are puckering

Present Perfect
I have puckered
you have puckered
he/she/it has puckered
we have puckered
you have puckered
they have puckered

Past Continuous
I was puckering
you were puckering
he/she/it was puckering
we were puckering
you were puckering
they were puckering

Past Perfect
I had puckered
you had puckered
he/she/it had puckered
we had puckered
you had puckered
they had puckered

Future
I will pucker
you will pucker
he/she/it will pucker
we will pucker
you will pucker
they will pucker

Future Perfect
I will have puckered
you will have puckered
he/she/it will have puckered
we will have puckered
you will have puckered
they will have puckered

Future Continuous
I will be puckering
you will be puckering
he/she/it will be puckering
we will be puckering
you will be puckering
they will be puckering

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been puckering
you have been puckering
he/she/it has been puckering
we have been puckering
you have been puckering
they have been puckering

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been puckering
you will have been puckering
he/she/it will have been puckering
we will have been puckering
you will have been puckering
they will have been puckering

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been puckering
you had been puckering
he/she/it had been puckering
we had been puckering
you had been puckering
they had been puckering

Conditional
I would pucker
you would pucker
he/she/it would pucker
we would pucker
you would pucker
they would pucker

Past Conditional
I would have puckered
you would have puckered
he/she/it would have puckered
we would have puckered
you would have puckered
they would have puckered

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	pucker - an irregular fold in an otherwise even surface (as in cloth)ruckcrease, crimp, fold, plication, flexure, bend - an angular or rounded shape made by folding; "a fold in the napkin"; "a crease in his trousers"; "a plication on her blouse"; "a flexure of the colon"; "a bend of his elbow"
Verb	1.	pucker - to gather something into small wrinkles or folds; "She puckered her lips"cockle, rumple, crumple, knitdraw - contract; "The material drew after it was washed in hot water"crease, crinkle, crisp, ruckle, scrunch up, wrinkle, scrunch - make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; "The dress got wrinkled"; "crease the paper like this to make a crane"
	2.	pucker - draw together into folds or puckerstuck, gathersew, sew together, stitch, run up - fasten by sewing; do needlework
	3.	pucker - become wrinkled or drawn together; "her lips puckered"ruck, ruck upcrease, crinkle, crisp, ruckle, scrunch up, wrinkle, scrunch - make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; "The dress got wrinkled"; "crease the paper like this to make a crane"

pucker

verb1. wrinkle, tighten, purse, pout, contract, gather, knit, crease, compress, crumple, ruffle, furrow, screw up, crinkle, draw together, ruck up, ruckle She puckered her lips and kissed him on the nose.noun1. wrinkle, fold, crease, crumple, ruck, crinkle, ruckle small puckers in the material

pucker

nounA line or an arrangement made by the doubling of one part over another:crease, crimp, crinkle, crumple, fold, pleat, plica, plication, rimple, ruck, rumple, wrinkle.

Translations

折迭皱纹皱褶皱起

pucker

(ˈpakə) verb to make or become wrinkled. 折迭，皱起 noun a wrinkle or fold. 皱褶，皱纹

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verb wrinkle

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noun wrinkle

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noun a line or an arrangement made by the doubling of one part over another

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noun an irregular fold in an otherwise even surface (as in cloth)

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verb to gather something into small wrinkles or folds

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verb draw together into folds or puckers

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verb become wrinkled or drawn together

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