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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!
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 ]
The meaning of PUCKER is to become wrinkled or constricted. How to use pucker 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.
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.
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 .]
Definition of pucker verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Jun 2, 2024 · pucker (third-person singular simple present puckers, present participle puckering, simple past and past participle puckered) (transitive, intransitive) To pinch or wrinkle; to squeeze inwardly, to dimple or fold.
A tart flavor that causes one's lips to pucker. The pucker of lemon. American Heritage. A state of perplexity or anxiety; confusion; bother; agitation. 1874 "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!
