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Pucker   /pˈəkər/   Listen
Pucker

noun
1.
An irregular fold in an otherwise even surface (as in cloth).  Synonym: ruck.
verb
(past & past part. puckered; pres. part. puckering)
1.
To gather something into small wrinkles or folds.  Synonyms: cockle, crumple, knit, rumple.
2.
Draw together into folds or puckers.  Synonyms: gather, tuck.
3.
Become wrinkled or drawn together.  Synonyms: ruck, ruck up.






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"Pucker" Quotes from Famous Books



... more bowed down by his needy distress, the everlasting anguish of his ill-luck. On the other hand, Duthil, in spite of everything, was perorating in the centre of a group with an affectation of scoffing unconcern; nevertheless nervous twitches made his nose pucker and distorted his mouth, while the whole of his handsome face was becoming moist with fear. And even as Massot had said, there really was only Fonsegue who showed composure and bravery, ever the same with his restless little figure, and his eyes beaming with wit, though at times they ...
— The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete - Lourdes, Rome and Paris • Emile Zola

... have gone astray. But now your thoughts went back to Beecher, and you looked hard across as if you were studying the character in his features. Then your eyes ceased to pucker, but you continued to look across, and your face was thoughtful. You were recalling the incidents of Beecher's career. I was well aware that you could not do this without thinking of the mission which ...
— The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 25, January 1893 - An Illustrated Monthly • Various

... "What a pucker everything is in!" said Bathsheba, discontentedly when the child had gone. "Get away, Maryann, or go on with your scrubbing, or do something! You ought to be married by this time, ...
— Far from the Madding Crowd • Thomas Hardy

... please," said the stranger, "I am James Pucker. I came to enter, sir, for my matriculation examination, and I wish to see the ...
— The Worlds Greatest Books - Vol. II: Fiction • Arthur Mee, J. A. Hammerton, Eds.

... pucker between her brows. How curious it was that some people failed so completely to take a reasonable view of things! They made mountains out of molehills, and expected her to climb them—she, whose unwary feet were accustomed to trip so lightly ...
— The Rocks of Valpre • Ethel May Dell


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