pucker

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But no sooner had the baby grabbed her cracked mug than her smooth forehead began to pucker, and, setting it down again, she regarded Norma earnestly.

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  1. transitive verb To gather into small wrinkles or folds: puckered my lips; puckered the curtains.
  2. intransitive verb To become gathered, contracted, and wrinkled.
  3. noun A wrinkle or wrinkled part, as in tightly stitched cloth.
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  • Hardhands feels his skin pucker, his eyes shrivel, his hair start to smolder, and then, just as he is sure he is about to burst into flames, the light shatters like an eggshell, and Something has arrived Recently, Hardhands' Invocations have grown quite bold, and, after some bitter tooth and nails, he's pulled a few large fish into his circle. —  FSF, July 2006
  • The lie almost made her lips pucker, as tight and unapproving as the lips of the real Sylvia Weinstein, widely believed to have been born with a lemon wedge in her mouth. —  Lippman, Laura - [Tess Monaghan 02] - Charm City
  • Not a single pucker or stray bit of floss It was a sweater for indoors, maybe for church on Sunday.
  • Idiotic. But of course, any fool who can pucker is apt to whistle past the graveyard. —  F ;SF; - vol 093 issue 04-05 - October-November 1997
  • His pucker was perfect and the heady aroma of boy ass filled my sense of smell. —  XXXX
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crinkle ·  ruck ·  crease ·  coffee-stained ·  friz ·  cockle ·  chignon ·  vireo ·  corrugation ·  prickling ·  contortion ·  pout

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pucker:   puckering ·  puckered
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Probably frequentative of dialectal pock, bag, sack, variant of poke3.

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  1. A freq. form, from poke, a bag or pocket. Cf. purse, v., wrinkle, from purse, n.; Italian saccolare, pucker, from sacco, a bag, sack.
  2. from pucker, v.
 

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