pucker
/ˈpʌkə(ɹ)/
pucker verb: to pinch or wrinkle (especially a body part); to squeeze inwardly, to dimple or fold.
Verb
pucker (third-person singular simple present puckers, present participle puckering, simple past and past participle puckered)
- To pinch or wrinkle (especially a body part); to squeeze inwardly, to dimple or fold.
- Now the skin was puckered into a million wrinkles, and on the shapeless face was the stamp of unutterable age.1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC
- He had a very dark, fearsome face, and a gleam in his eyes that comes back to me in my dreams. His hair and whiskers were shot with gray, and his face was all crinkled and puckered like a withered apple.1893, Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Adventure of the Crooked Man".
Noun
pucker (plural puckers)
- A fold or wrinkle.
- The mouth was compressed, and on either side of it two tiny wrinkles had formed themselves in her cheeks. An infinity of slightly malicious amusement lurked in those little folds, in the puckers about the half-closed eyes, in the eyes themselves, bright and laughing between the narrowed lids.1921, Aldous Huxley, chapter 3, in Crome Yellow, London: Chatto & Windus
- A state of perplexity or anxiety; confusion; bother; agitation.
- 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, and not here troubling me!"1874, Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd.
- The anus.
- […]she felt a pressure at her asshole, a cock pressing against her pucker, trying to slide in.2018, Annathemonstereffer, A Ghost Story
pucker meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
pucker in Tamil
- சுருக்கு, சுரி, பெருமடிப்பு
pucker in Urdu
- جھول, جھری پڑنا
pucker in Bengali
- কুঁচকানো, ভাঁজ করা
pucker in Malayalam
- ഞൊറിയുക, ചുളിയുക, മടിച്ചു വയ്ക്കുക
More languagesFewer languages
- pucker in Kannada
- ಹಣೆಯನ್ನು, ಗಂಟುಹಾಕು, ಸುಕ್ಕುಗಟ್ಟು, ಸುಕ್ಕಾಗು
Examples of pucker in a sentence
- Pucker up and gimme a kiss!
- The fingers had withered into puckered twigs; her little nail had fallen off entirely.
- Relationships were warmer then.' His mouth puckered, as if hunting a lost taste.
Forms of pucker
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | puckers |
| present participle | puckering |
| past participle | puckered |
| past | puckered |
| Noun | |
| plural | puckers |
Origin of pucker
Origin obscure. Perhaps continuing Middle English pukkeren (“to hoard, save”, literally “to sack, stow away in a poke or bag”) with a change in meaning (compare purse (“to pucker”)). Alternatively, perhaps a direct alteration of poke (verb, or the noun meaning "a small bag"). By surface analysis, poke + -er.
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Questions about pucker
- What does pucker mean?
- Pucker means to pinch or wrinkle (especially a body part); to squeeze inwardly, to dimple or fold.
- What is pucker in Tamil?
- Pucker in Tamil is சுருக்கு, சுரி, பெருமடிப்பு. See Pucker meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is pucker?
- Pucker can be a verb or a noun.
- How do you pronounce pucker?
- Pucker is pronounced /ˈpʌkə(ɹ)/.
- What is the past tense of pucker?
- The past tense of pucker is puckered.
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Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: pucker (page history and authors); pucker (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); pucker (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); pucker (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); pucker (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); pucker (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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