PUCKER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pucker mean? 

• PUCKER (noun)
  The noun PUCKER has 1 sense:

1. an irregular fold in an otherwise even surface (as in cloth)

  Familiarity information: PUCKER used as a noun is very rare.

• PUCKER (verb)
  The verb PUCKER has 3 senses:

1. to gather something into small wrinkles or folds

2. draw together into folds or puckers

3. become wrinkled or drawn together

  Familiarity information: PUCKER used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PUCKER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An irregular fold in an otherwise even surface (as in cloth)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Synonyms:

pucker; ruck

Hypernyms ("pucker" is a kind of...):

bend; crease; crimp; flexure; fold; plication (an angular or rounded shape made by folding)

Derivation:

pucker (become wrinkled or drawn together)

pucker (draw together into folds or puckers)

• PUCKER (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they pucker    ... he / she / it puckers   
Past simple: puckered   
Past participle: puckered   
-ing form: puckering   

Sense 1

Meaning:

To gather something into small wrinkles or folds

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

cockle; crumple; knit; pucker; rumple

Context example:

She puckered her lips

Hypernyms (to "pucker" is one way to...):

crease; crinkle; crisp; ruckle; scrunch; scrunch up; wrinkle (make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; 'crisp' is archaic)

Verb group:

draw (contract)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

They pucker the sheets

Sense 2

Meaning:

Draw together into folds or puckers

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

gather; pucker; tuck

Hypernyms (to "pucker" is one way to...):

run up; sew; sew together; stitch (fasten by sewing; do needlework)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

pucker (an irregular fold in an otherwise even surface (as in cloth))

Sense 3

Meaning:

Become wrinkled or drawn together

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

pucker; ruck; ruck up

Context example:

her lips puckered

Hypernyms (to "pucker" is one way to...):

crease; crinkle; crisp; ruckle; scrunch; scrunch up; wrinkle (make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; 'crisp' is archaic)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sentence example:

The sheets didn't pucker

Derivation:

pucker (an irregular fold in an otherwise even surface (as in cloth))

 Context examples 

She has a puckered forehead, a peering expression, and probably rounded shoulders.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“You can ride?” asked Sir Nigel, looking at the youth with puckered eyes.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The cheeks were sunken, and there was a wearied, puckered expression on the brow.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

When I at last drew him down on to the sofa, his mouth and eyelids were all puckered on one side, and I saw that he had a stroke.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Her forehead is puckered up into little wrinkles, as though she thinks even in her sleep.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

She puckered her brows and pursed up her mouth as she thought, while he looked on and decided that her expression was most adorable.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Base pairs are nearly perpendicular to the helix axis and sugar pucker is C2'-endo.

(B-DNA, NCI Thesaurus)

Base pairs are tilted to helix axis and displaced from axis and sugar pucker is C3'-endo (in RNA 2'-OH inhibits C2'-endo conformation).

(A-DNA, NCI Thesaurus)

Sherlock Holmes stopped in front of it with his head on one side and looked it all over, with his eyes shining brightly between puckered lids.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His eyes especially were meshed round with wrinkles, as is natural for one who had puckered them all his life in facing foul wind and bitter weather.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)