Pucker
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈpʌkə(ɹ)/ · Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Pucker is a verb meaning (ambitransitive) To pinch or wrinkle (especially a body part); to squeeze inwardly, to dimple or fold.
Meaning
(ambitransitive) To pinch or wrinkle (especially a body part); to squeeze inwardly, to dimple or fold.
More Meanings
- A fold or wrinkle.
- (colloquial) A state of perplexity or anxiety; confusion; bother; agitation.
- (slang) The anus.
Example Sentences
[…]she felt a pressure at her asshole, a cock pressing against her pucker, trying to slide in.
Now the skin was puckered into a million wrinkles, and on the shapeless face was the stamp of unutterable age.
What a pucker everything is in!" said Bathsheba, discontentedly when the child had gone. "Get away, Maryann, or go on with your scrubbing, or do something! You ought to be married by this time, and not here troubling me!"
1893, Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Adventure of the Crooked Man". He had a very dark, fearsome face, and a gleam in his eyes that comes back to me in my dreams. His hair and whiskers were shot with gray, and his face was all crinkled and puckered like a withered apple.
Word Forms
- puckers
- puckering
- puckered
Synonyms for pucker
Depending on context, synonyms include draw, ruck, gather, cockle, crumple, tuck.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include crumple, rumple, tuck, ruck, knit, gather.
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Sources & Attribution
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