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- Dictionarypucker/ˈpʌkə/
verb
- 1. (especially with reference to a person's face) tightly gather or contract into wrinkles or small folds: "the child's face puckered, ready to cry"
noun
- 1. a tightly gathered wrinkle or small fold: "a pucker between his eyebrows"
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PUCKER definition: 1. to tighten skin or cloth until small folds appear or (of skin or cloth) to form small folds: 2…. Learn more.
Pucker is a verb for what happens when something smooth or flat gets folded up into little wrinkles, like how you pucker your lips when you go to kiss someone — you, wild flirt, you!
noun. : a fold or wrinkle in a normally even surface. Examples of pucker in a Sentence. Verb His skin puckered a little around the scar. Recent Examples on the Web. Verb. Some varieties have smooth leaves; others are hairy, even puckered.
When a part of your face puckers or when you pucker it, it becomes tight or stretched, often because you are trying not to cry or are going to kiss someone. Toby's face puckered. [ VERB ]
Pucker definition: to draw or gather into wrinkles or irregular folds, as material or a part of the face; constrict. See examples of PUCKER used in a sentence.
PUCKER meaning: 1. to tighten skin or cloth until small folds appear or (of skin or cloth) to form small folds: 2…. Learn more.
Definition of pucker verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
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 .]
A complete guide to the word "PUCKER": definitions, pronunciations, synonyms, grammar insights, collocations, examples, and translations.
To draw up or gather into wrinkles or small folds. Webster's New World. Similar definitions. To become gathered, contracted, and wrinkled. American Heritage. Synonyms: tuck. gather. ruck up. knit. crumple. rumple. cockle. plait. fold. crinkle. crease. corrugate. bulge. bind. Antonyms: open.
