Pucker

Definition: Pucker

Pucker

Noun

1. An irregular fold in an otherwise even surface (as in cloth).

Verb

1. To gather something into small wrinkles or folds; "She puckered her lips".

2. Draw fabric together and sew it tightly.

3. Become puckered.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "pucker" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Metallurgy

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Pucker

Excitation

Adjective: excited; Verb: wrought up, up the qui vive, astir, sparkling; in a quiver; in a fever, in a ferment, in a blaze, in a state of excitement; in hysterics; black in the face, overwrought, tense, taught, on a razor's edge; hot, red-hot, flushed, feverish; all of a twitter, in a pucker; with quivering lips, with tears in one's eyes.

Fold

Verb: fold, double, plicate, plait, crease, wrinkle, crinkle, crankle, curl, cocker, rimple, rumple, flute,frizzle, frounce, rivel, twill, corrugate, ruffle, crimple, crumple, pucker; turn down, double down, down under; tuck, ruck, hem, gather.

Noun: fold, plicature, plait, pleat,ply, crease; tuck, gather; flexion, flexure, joint, elbow, double, doubling, duplicature, gather, wrinkle, rimple, crinkle, crankle, crumple, rumple, rivel, ruck, ruffle, dog's ear, corrugation, frounce, flounce, lapel; pucker, crow's feet; plication.

Resentment

Flushed with anger, flushed with rage; in a huff, in a stew, in a fume, in a pucker, in a passion, in a rage, in a fury, in a taking, in a way; on one's high ropes, up in arms; in high dudgeon.

Excitement, irritation; warmth, bile, choler, ire, fume, pucker, dander, ferment, ebullition; towering passion, acharnement, angry mood, taking, pet, tiff, passion, fit, tantrums.

Crosswords: Pucker

Like a sucker getting slapped every time I pucker (Ain't No Place Like Home; performing artist: Prince)

Pucker Up and Bark Like a Dog (1990)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• The Official Patient's Sourcebook on Macular Pucker (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Pucker Power: Great Kissers Make Great Lovers (reference)

• Pucker Up, Buttercup! (reference)

• The Game Continues: Chess in the Art of Samuel Bak (Distributed for Pucker Art Publications, Boston) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Pucker Up and Bark Like a Dog (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Pucker Up Buttercup (reference)

• The Pucker Up (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

From Pucker Pass Road with La Sal Mountains in background, near Moab, Utah. Credit: Jerry Sintz.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Expressions using "pucker": pucker lips ♦ pucker one's brows ♦ pucker up. Additional references.

Beginning with "pucker": pucker-cum-squint.

Albanian

rrudhoset, rrudhos (crease, ruck, ruffle, wrinkle), rrudhë (cockle, corrugation, crease, Crinkle, furrow, ruckle, rugosity, seam, wrinkle). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فضن شفتيه, ‏غضن جبينه, ‏غضن (buckle, crease, purse, rumple, spray, wrinkle), ‏تغضن (cockle, corrugate, crinkle, crumple, furrow, ruffle, shrivel, wrinkle), ‏تعرج (meander, sinuosity, tortuosity, twine), ‏تجعد (corrugate, crease, crinkle, crispiness, crumple, curl, frizz, furrow, ruckle, seize, shrivel, wrinkle), ‏جعدة (crumple, furrow, wrinkle), ‏ثنى (bend, deter, dissuade, drape, flex, fold, folding, goffer, hire, inflect, lap, pat, pleat, pliable, praise, replicate, tribute, tuck). (various references)

Bulgarian 

свивам (bend, constrict, contract, convulse, cop, double, double up, draw, knap, knit, knit together, knot, neck, pinch, roll, screw, screw up, set, shorten, snitch, swing, turn, turn down, twist, wad, warp, work), цупя се (grump, pet, sulk, tiff), гънка (circumvolution, cockle, corrugation, crease, doubling, fold, kink, lap, plication, pocket, rugosity, rumple, wrinkle), намръщвам, набръчквам (cockle, corrugate, crumple, furrow, purse, ruck, rumple, seam), набор (class, composition, draft, draught, frill, furbelow, gathers, intake, matter, quilling, ruck, ruffle, shirr, skirt, typesetting), набирам (compose, dial, gather, maturate, muster, muster up, quill, raise, set, set up, shirr), мръщя се (frown, glower, knit one's brows, knit the brows, lower, scowl, sulk), бръчка (cockle, corrugation, line, plica, plication, ruck, ruckle, ruffle, rugosity, rumple, seam, wrinkle). (various references)

Czech

zvrásnìní, záhyb (crease, Crinkle, fold, gather, meander, plait, ply, roll, ruck, twirl, wrinkle), vráska (Crinkle, ruck, wrinkle), svraštit (corrugate, ridgy, rumple, shrivel, wrinkle), nakrèit. (various references)

Danish

bølge (wave). (various references)

Dutch

secundaire plooivorming. (various references)

Finnish

ryppy (crease, furrow, gather, wrinkle). (various references)

French

pli, se plisser, grimacer (pull a face), goder, faux pli. (various references)

German

Runzel (furrow, line, wrinkle). (various references)

Greek 

σουφρώνω (curl, nab, nobble, pilfer, pinch, shirr, swipe), πτύσσω (fold, ruffle, tuck), πτυχή (crease, crumple, fold, plait, ply, rimple, ruck, ruffle, tuck), ζάρα (ruck, wrinkle), ζαρώνω (cockle, contract, cower, crimple, cringe, crouch, crumple, knit, ruck, rumple, shrink, shrivel, wimple, wrinkle). (various references)

Hungarian

ránc (crease, Crinkle, crinkling, crumpling, flounce, furrow, pleat, plica, puckering, ruckle, wimple, wrinkle). (various references)

Italian

ruga (furrow, line, wrinkle), raggrinzirsi (crumple, shrivel), increspare (Crinkle, gather, purse, ripple, ruck, ruckle, ruffle), grinza (crease, Crinkle, fold, pleat, ruck, ruckle, wrinkle), corrugare (corrugate, knit, knot, wrinkle, wrinkles), arricciare (become curly, Crimp, Crinkle, curl, dimple, frill, frizz, frizzle). (various references)

Manx

rockey (purse, rumple), roagey (cockle, cockle on face), cur rockey ayn. (various references)

Pig Latin

uckerpay.(various references)

Portuguese

preguear (frill, gather, goffer, kilt, plait, pleat, ruck, ruckle, ruffle, shirr), prega (cockle, crumple, double, flute, gather, kink, pleat, ply, ripple, ruck, ruckle, shir, shirr, tuck, wrinkle), perplexidade (abashment, astonishment, baffle, flinch, knot, maze, maziness, mind-breaker, nonplus, perplexity, puzzle, puzzlement, quandary), ruga (cockle, crease, crinkle, crumple, fold, furrow, plica, ripple, wrinkle), franzir (corrugate, full, furrow, kilt, plait, quill, ruck, ruckle, shirr, wrinkle), franzido (corrugated, crimpy, frilled, gather, pleat, quilling, ruckle), enrugar-se (ripple, roughen, shrink), enrugar (cockle, corrugate, crease, crimp, crinkle, crumple, crush, fret, furrow, ripple, ruffle, rumple, shrivel, wrinkle), dispor em pregas, contrair-se (shrink). (various references)

Romanian

plia (cockle, fold), strâmba (bend, cast, contort, crook, distort, grimace, twist), se îndoi (be doubtful of, bend, cast doubts on smth., crook, discredit, distrust, double up, doubt, get out of true, give, hook on, query, question, sag, spring, stand in doubt, suspect, verge, yield), cuta (fold, goffer). (various references)

Russian 

морщить складка, морщина (cockle, corrugation, crease, line, ruck, rugosity, wrinkle), делать складки (crease, ruck, tuck). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

skupiti (aggregate, amass, assemble, collect, congregate, constrict, contract, gather, lay up, levy, raise, rake, shrink, treasure), nezgoda (accident, trouble), nabor (crease, crinkle, fold, frill, goffer, plait, pleat, ruck, tuck, wrinkle), nabirati (corrugate, crimp, plait, ruffle, shirr), mrgoditi se (crease, wrinkle). (various references)

Spanish

pliegue (crease, fold, kink, plait, pleat, plication, tuck), fruncir (bunch, contract, gather, knit, lower, plait, pucker up, purse, ruffle, shirr, smock), fruncido (contracted, gathering, knitted, plaited, pleat), frunce (gather, pleat), arrugar (crease, furrow, line, ruck, ruckle, ruffle, rumple, screw up, seam, shrivel, wrinkle, wrinkles), arruga (cockle, crease, crinkle, fold, furrow, kink, line, ridge, ruck, ruffle, rumple, seam, wrinkle). (various references)

Swedish

rynka (crease, Crinkle, frill, furrow, gather, knit, line, pleat, shirr, wringkle, wrinkle). (various references)

Turkish

velvele (ballyhoo, fuss, hoi polloi, hubbub, hullabaloo, hurly burly, kerfufle, noise, racket, riot), telaş (ado, alarm, bustle, commotion, directness, discomposure, disturbance, excitement, ferment, fever, flap, flurry, flutter, fume, fuss, fussiness, haste, hastiness, helter-skelter, hurry, panic, precipitance, precipitancy, precipitateness, precipitation, racket, ruffle, rush, stir, storm, taking, tingle, tizzy, to-do, turmoil, whirl), kırıştırmak (cockle, corrugate, Crinkle, crumple up, flirt with, frill, furrow, line, pucker up, ruck, ruck up, ruffle, rumple, shrivel, shrivel up, wrinkle, wrinkle up), kırışmak (become wrinkled, bunch, cockle, corrugate, crease, Crinkle, crumple, frill, ripple, ruck, ruck up, ruffle, shrivel, shrivel up, wrinkle), kırışık (corrugation, crease, Crinkle, crinkly, crisp, crispy, furrow, liny, ruck, seam, wrinkle, wrinkled, wrinkly), heyecan (affect, agitation, animation, Ardor, ardour, bang, commotion, dither, drama, emotion, enthusiasm, exaltation, excitement, ferment, fermentation, fever, fire, flap, flurry, flush, flutter, furor, furore, glow, kick, razzle-dazzle, rhapsody, ruffle, sensation, shiver, spice, spring tide, stir, taking, tension, the shivers, thrill, tingle, twitter, vibes, vibration, wallop, warmth, yeast), buruşukluk (ruck, wrinkle), buruşturmak (cockle, corrugate, crease, Crinkle, crumple, crumple up, muss, pucker up, ruck, ruck up, ruckle, ruffle, rumple, shrivel, shrivel up, wrinkle, wrinkle up), buruşmak (cockle, corrugate, crease, Crinkle, crumple, crush, ruck, ruck up, ruffle, shrivel, shrivel up, wrinkle), büzmek (astringe, constrict, gather, purse up, shir, shirr, shrink, shrivel), büzgü yapmak (gather, shir, shirr, smock), büzgü (gathering, shir, shirr, smocking). (various references)

Ukrainian

хвилювання (agitation, boil, bubble, care, disturbance, excitation, feeze, fermentation, fizzle, heartbeat, perturbation, pother, stirring, swell, throb, uproar), морщити (purse, wrinkle), зніяковіння (abashment), зморшка (cockle, corrugation, crease, crumple, rugosity, wrinkle), зборка (wrinkle), збиратися у зкладки. (various references)

Vietnamese 

nếp nhăn (crease, crinkle). (various references)

Welsh

crychu (ripple, ruffle, wrinkle), crebachu (shrink, shrivel, wrinkle). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "pucker": puckered, puckerer, puckerers, puckerier, puckeriest, puckering, puckers, puckery. (additional references)

Words ending with "pucker": unpucker. (additional references)

Words containing "pucker": unpuckered, unpuckering, unpuckers. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Pucker" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fuckery, packerd, Pauker, Pckeg, Peucker, Peukert, Phucke, pickern, pocker, pucca, pucci, Puchero, Puckrik, Pukar, pukkah, pulker, punker, Pupker, Purkar, Puska. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: cuke, cure, ecru, peck, perk, puce, puck, puke, pure, reck, ruck.

-3 letters: cep, cue, cup, cur, ecu, kep, kue, pec, per, pur, rec, rep, rue, uke.

-4 letters: er, pe, re, up.

+1 letter: plucker, puckers, puckery.

+2 letters: pluckers, pluckier, puckered, puckerer, unpacker, unpucker.

+3 letters: cyberpunk, parbuckle, puckerers, puckerier, puckering, sapsucker, superjock, unpackers, unpuckers.

+4 letters: cyberpunks, keypuncher, parbuckled, parbuckles, puckeriest, sapsuckers, superblock, superflack, superjocks, superslick, superstock, superthick, unpuckered.

+5 letters: computernik, cupronickel, keypunchers, superblocks, superflacks, superstocks, unpuckering.