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Definition: Puckered |
PuckeredAdjective1. Used especially of fabrics; having puckers. 2. (used of the skin of the face) contracted into wrinkles; "a puckered-up mouth waiting to be kissed"; "her mischievous puckered nose". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "puckered" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | Term applied to a leaf the surface of which appears blstered or wrinkled between the secondary and tertiary veins. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: PuckeredSynonym: puckered-up (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Puckered |
| English words defined with "puckered": bullate, Bullate leaf ♦ cockle, Cockled, crumple ♦ knit ♦ pucker, puckered-up, Puckery, Puggered ♦ ruck, ruck up, rumple ♦ seersucker. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "puckered": Barristers' Gowns ♦ goffered woven fabric ♦ HOOKER-LASTER. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "puckered": Puggered. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Go then, while I hear what this puckered old persimmon has to say (The Ten Commandments; writing credit: J.H. Ingraham; A.E. Southon) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Pogo. Phoo -- my voice is all puckered out from hollerin' "Pogo". Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Ma came in with wet hands, and her palms puckered and bloated from hot water and soap |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Puckered" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 53.70% of the time. "Puckered" is used about 54 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 53.7% | 29 | 64,444 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 38.89% | 21 | 76,261 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 7.41% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 54 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "puckered": puckered-up. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
porthole puckered | 6 |
puckered | 4 |
lip puckered | 3 |
anus puckered | 2 |
hole puckered | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "puckered"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | rynket. (various references) | |
Dutch | kroezeligheid. (various references) | |
Finnish | poimuinen (pleated), kurttuinen (creased, crumpled, wrinkled). (various references) | |
French | gaufrée. (various references) | |
Greek | μελικηρώδες. (various references) | |
Hungarian | redős (crinkly, frilled, puckery), ráncos (creased, creasy, crinkly, puckery, rugous, seamed, weazened, withered, wizen, wizened, wrinkled, wrinkly), ráncolt homlokú, kreppelt (puckery), húzott (drawn, drew, puckery, shirred), összeráncolt. (various references) | |
Italian | bollosa ( a superficie ). (various references) | |
Manx | rockit, cruinnit (enclosed, surrounded). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | uckeredpay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | empolada. (various references) | |
Spanish | estampado en la superficie. (various references) | |
Swedish | krusig (crinkly, crisp, curly, frizzly, frizzy, ringleted, ringlety). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | гофрований (corrugated, frilled, wavy), зморщений (contracted, corrugated, creasy, puckery, pursy, shrunken, wrinkled). (various references) | |
Welsh | crychlyd (wrinkled). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "puckered": unpuckered. (additional references) | |
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"Puckered" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: packerd, Puckrik, Pushkarev, Pushkarov. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-k-p-r-u" | |
-1 letter: peruked. | |
-2 letters: creped, decker, ducker, pecked, pecker, perdue, perked, peruke, pucker, pureed, recked, reduce, rucked. | |
-3 letters: ceder, cered, creed, creek, creep, crepe, crude, cured, deuce, dreck, drupe, duper, educe, kreep, perdu, preed, prude, puked, puree, rupee. | |
-4 letters: cede, cepe, cere, crud, cued, cuke, curd, cure, deck, deep, deer, deke, dere, dree, drek, duce, duck. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-e-k-p-r-u" | |
+2 letters: unpuckered. | |
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