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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun pucker has 1 sense
- pucker(n = noun.shape) ruck - an irregular fold in an otherwise even surface (as in cloth); Array is a kind of bend, crease, crimp, flexure, fold, plication
Derived forms verb pucker3, verb pucker2
Verb pucker has 3 senses
- pucker(v = verb.contact) cockle, crumple, knit, rumple - to gather something into small wrinkles or folds; "She puckered her lips" is one way to crease, crinkle, crisp, ruckle, scrunch, scrunch up, wrinkle
- pucker(v = verb.contact) gather, tuck - draw together into folds or puckers; Array is one way to run up, sew, sew together, stitch
- pucker(v = verb.contact) ruck, ruck up - become wrinkled or drawn together; "her lips puckered" is one way to crease, crinkle, crisp, ruckle, scrunch, scrunch up, wrinkle
Sample sentence:
They pucker the sheets
Derived form noun pucker1
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
Derived form noun pucker1
Sample sentence:
The sheets didn't pucker
CIDE DICTIONARY
pucker, v. t. & i. [From Poke a pocket, small bag.].
To gather into small folds or wrinkles; to contract into ridges and furrows; to corrugate; -- often with up; as, to pucker up the mouth. Spectator. [1913 Webster]
pucker, n.
- A fold; a wrinkle; a collection of folds. [1913 Webster]
- A state of perplexity or anxiety; confusion; bother; agitation. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
pucker, v. & n.
--v.tr. & intr. (often foll. by up) gather or cause to gather into wrinkles, folds, or bulges (puckered her eyebrows; this seam is puckered up).
--n. such a wrinkle, bulge, fold, etc.
--v.tr. & intr. (often foll. by up) gather or cause to gather into wrinkles, folds, or bulges (puckered her eyebrows; this seam is puckered up).
--n. such a wrinkle, bulge, fold, etc.
Derivative
puckery adj.
Etymology
prob. frequent., formed as POKE(2), POCKET (cf. PURSE)
THESAURUS
pucker
abbreviate, agitation, all-overs, angst, anxiety, anxiety hysteria, anxiety neurosis, anxious bench, anxious concern, anxious seat, anxiousness, apprehension, apprehensiveness, befuddlement, bewilderment, bother, botheration, cankerworm of care, care, chaos, circumscribe, cloud, coarct, cocker, cockle, compact, compress, concentrate, concern, concernment, condense, confusion, consolidate, constrict, constringe, contract, corrugate, corrugation, cramp, crankle, crease, crimp, crimple, crinkle, crinkling, crumple, curtail, daze, decrease, discombobulation, discomfiture, discomposure, disconcertion, disorder, disorganization, disorientation, disquiet, disquietude, distress, disturbance, dither, draw, draw in, draw together, dread, embarrassment, fear, flap, flummox, flurry, fluster, flusteration, flustration, flutter, fog, fold, foofaraw, foreboding, forebodingness, frenzy, fret, fuddle, fuddlement, furrow, fuss, gather, haze, inquietude, jumble, knit, knot, lather, malaise, maze, mess, misgiving, mist, muddle, muddlement, narrow, nervous strain, nervous tension, nervousness, overanxiety, perplexity, perturbation, pins and needles, pleat, pother, pucker up, purse, reduce, ridge, rimple, ripple, rivel, ruche, ruck, ruckle, ruffle, rumple, screw up, shirr, shirring, shorten, shuffle, solicitude, solidify, squeeze, stew, strain, strangle, strangulate, suspense, sweat, swivet, tension, tighten, tizzy, trouble, tuck, twitter, twitteration, uneasiness, unquietness, unsettlement, upset, vexation, wimple, wrinkle, wrinkling, zealROGET THESAURUS
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Resentment
N resentment, displeasure, animosity, anger, wrath, indignation, exasperation, bitter resentment, wrathful indignation, pique, umbrage, huff, miff, soreness, dudgeon, acerbity, virulence, bitterness, acrimony, asperity, spleen, gall, heart-burning, heart-swelling, rankling, ill humor, bad humor, ill temper, bad temper, irascibility, ill blood, revenge, excitement, irritation, warmth, bile, choler, ire, fume, pucker, dander, ferment, ebullition, towering passion, acharnement, angry mood, taking, pet, tiff, passion, fit, tantrums, burst, explosion, paroxysm, storm, rage, fury, desperation, violence, fire and fury, vials of wrath, gnashing of teeth, hot blood, high words, scowl, sulks, affront, provocation, offense, indignity, grudge, crow to pluck, bone to pick, sore subject, casus belli, ill turn, outrage, Furies, Eumenides, buffet, slap in the face, box on the ear, rap on the knuckles, angry, wrath, irate, ireful, wrathful, cross, Achillean, sulky, bitter, virulent, acrimonious &c (discourteous), violent, warm, burning, boiling, boiling over, fuming, raging, foaming, foaming at the mouth, convulsed with rage, offended, waxy, acharne, wrought, worked up, indignant, hurt, sore, set against, fierce, wild, rageful, furious, mad with rage, fiery, infuriate, rabid, savage, relentless, flushed with anger, flushed with rage, in a huff, in a stew, in a fume, in a pucker, in a passion, in a rage, in a fury, in a taking, in a way, on one's high ropes, up in arms, in high dudgeon, angrily, in the height of passion, in the heat of passion, in the heat of the moment, Int, tantaene animis coelestibus irae!, marry come up!, zounds!, 'sdeath!, one's blood being up, one's back being up, one's monkey being up, fervens difficili bile jecur, the gorge rising, eyes flashing fire, the blood rising, the blood boiling, haeret lateri lethalis arundo, beware the fury of a patient man, furor arma ministrat, ira furor brevis est, quem Jupiter vult perdere dementat prius, What, drunk with choler?.Fold
N fold, plicature, plait, pleat, ply, crease, tuck, gather, flexion, flexure, joint, elbow, double, doubling, duplicature, gather, wrinkle, rimple, crinkle, crankle, crumple, rumple, rivel, ruck, ruffle, dog's ear, corrugation, frounce, flounce, lapel, pucker, crow's feet, plication, folded, fluted, pleated.VB fold, double, plicate, plait, crease, wrinkle, crinkle, crankle, curl, cockle up, cocker, rimple, rumple, flute, frizzle, frounce, rivel, twill, corrugate, ruffle, crimple, crumple, pucker, turn down, double down, down under, tuck, ruck, hem, gather.
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