Definitions for pucker

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pucker puck·er

Spelling: [puhk-er]

IPA: /ˈpʌk ər/

Pucker is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 79 anagrams from letters in pucker (cekpru).

Definitions for pucker

noun

1. a wrinkle; an irregular fold.
2. a puckered part, as of cloth tightly or crookedly sewn.
3. Archaic. a state of agitation or perturbation.

verb (used with or without object)

1. to draw or gather into wrinkles or irregular folds, as material or a part of the face; constrict:

Origin of pucker

1590-1600; apparently a frequentative form connected with poke²; see -er⁶ and for the meaning cf. p

Examples for pucker

There was the mole on his chin, and the pucker under his left eyelid.

The selvage is more closely woven and will draw or pucker in laundrying.

What are you thinking of, Judy, and why do you pucker up your forehead?

She is the author of two young adult novels, The Map That Breathed and pucker.

Suddenly he stopped, and a pucker on his brow betrayed anxiety.

“Padre, my shoe pinches,” said Nora with a pucker between her eyes.

He was gazin' at me with his mouth open and a pucker between his eyes.

Then his face'll pucker, surprised, and he'll begin to crumble down slow.

He drew his brow into a pucker which furrowed the flesh between his brows.

Mr. Ashe laughed as he smoothed out a pucker in his niece's brow.