Pucker

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  • intransitive verb. To gather into small wrinkles or folds.
  • intransitive verb. To become gathered, contracted, and wrinkled.
  • noun. A wrinkle or wrinkled part, as in tightly stitched cloth.
  • noun. A facial expression in which the lips are tightly pulled together and pushed outward.
  • noun. A tart flavor that causes one's lips to pucker.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To draw up or contract into irregular folds or wrinkles; specifically, in sewing, to gather: often followed by up: as, to pucker cloth in sewing.
  • To become irregularly ridged or wrinkled: as, his face puckered up into a smile; the mouth puckers on eating choke-cherries.
  • noun. A drawing or gathering into folds or wrinkles; an irregular folding or wrinkling; a collection of irregularly converging ridges or wrinkles.
  • noun. A state of flutter, agitation, or confusion.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A fold; a wrinkle; a collection of folds.
  • noun. A state of perplexity or anxiety; confusion; bother; agitation.
  • verb. To gather into small folds or wrinkles; to contract into ridges and furrows; to corrugate; -- often with up.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To pinch or wrinkle; to squeeze inwardly, to dimple or fold.
  • noun. A fold or wrinkle.
  • noun. A state of perplexity or anxiety; confusion; bother; agitation.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. draw together into folds or puckers
  • verb. become wrinkled or drawn together
  • noun. an irregular fold in an otherwise even surface (as in cloth)
  • verb. to gather something into small wrinkles or folds
  • Word Usage
    "Its as close to the "pucker" factor as I hope to come."
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    bend  crease  crimp  crinkle  crisp  
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