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Pucker
Definitions
- 1 A fold or wrinkle.
"The mouth was compressed, and on either side of it two tiny wrinkles had formed themselves in her cheeks. An infinity of slightly malicious amusement lurked in those little folds, in the puckers about the half-closed eyes, in the eyes themselves, bright and laughing between the narrowed lids."
- 2 an irregular fold in an otherwise even surface (as in cloth) wordnet
- 3 A state of perplexity or anxiety; confusion; bother; agitation. colloquial
"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!""
- 4 The anus. slang
"[…]she felt a pressure at her asshole, a cock pressing against her pucker, trying to slide in."
- 1 To pinch or wrinkle (especially a body part); to squeeze inwardly, to dimple or fold. ambitransitive
"Now the skin was puckered into a million wrinkles, and on the shapeless face was the stamp of unutterable age."
- 2 to gather something into small wrinkles or folds wordnet
- 3 become wrinkled or drawn together wordnet
- 4 draw together into folds or puckers wordnet
Etymology
Origin obscure. Perhaps continuing Middle English pukkeren (“to hoard, save”, literally “to sack, stow away in a poke or bag”) with a change in meaning (compare purse (“to pucker”)). Alternatively, perhaps a direct alteration of poke (verb, or the noun meaning "a small bag"). By surface analysis, poke + -er.
Origin obscure. Perhaps continuing Middle English pukkeren (“to hoard, save”, literally “to sack, stow away in a poke or bag”) with a change in meaning (compare purse (“to pucker”)). Alternatively, perhaps a direct alteration of poke (verb, or the noun meaning "a small bag"). By surface analysis, poke + -er.
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