pucker Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun an irregular fold in an otherwise even surface (as in cloth)
    ruck.
  2. verb to gather something into small wrinkles or folds
    knit; rumple; crumple; cockle.
    • She puckered her lips
  3. verb draw together into folds or puckers
    gather; tuck.
  4. verb become wrinkled or drawn together
    ruck up; ruck.
    • her lips puckered

WordNet

Puck"er transitive verb & intransitive verb
Etymology
From Poke a pocket, small bag.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Puckered ; present participle & verbal noun Puckering
Definitions
  1. To gather into small folds or wrinkles; to contract into ridges and furrows; to corrugate; -- often with up; as, to pucker up the mouth. "His skin [was] puckered up in wrinkles." Spectator.
Puck"er noun
Definitions
  1. A fold; a wrinkle; a collection of folds.
  2. A state of perplexity or anxiety; confusion; bother; agitation. Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U. S.

Webster 1913