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pucker

[ UK /pˈʌkɐ/ ]
[ US /ˈpəkɝ/ ]
VERB
  1. draw together into folds or puckers
  2. to gather something into small wrinkles or folds
    She puckered her lips
  3. become wrinkled or drawn together
    her lips puckered
NOUN
  1. an irregular fold in an otherwise even surface (as in cloth)

How To Use pucker In A Sentence

  • The dress fitted badly and puckered at the waist.
  • Leo got a door to pucker open, and they walked out into the light of a fusion-lamp sun. METAPLANETARY
  • The esophagoscope encounters only the diaphragmatic pinchcock which seems to be at the top of the stomach like the puckering string at the top of a bag. Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery
  • In the case of very tightly woven microfibers, you may wish to tip the pattern slightly off-grain in order to prevent puckered seams.
  • She puckered up her lips for a kiss.
  • Here you are in white-wine country, where producers in the Minho make a green wine that is very dry and on a first sip can appear slightly sharp, with a mouth-puckering acid kick and a slightly spritzy feel. Iberia's Hidden Gems
  • The top of the stomach seems to be closed by the diaphragmatic pinchcock in the same way that the top of a bag is closed by a puckering string. Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery
  • ‘Thank you,’ says the bartender, who does pride himself on his perfect pucker.
  • This canteen (with a funnel on its top, like a cavalier cap slouched over the eyes) was set on edge upon the puncheon, with the hole toward myself; and through this hole, which seemed puckered up like the mouth of a very precise old maid, the creature was emitting certain rumbling and grumbling noises which he evidently intended for intelligible talk. Archive 2008-12-01
  • Sewing straight across from left to right on a cap front can cause a cap to pucker at the seam.
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