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pucker

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puck⋅er

  [puhk-er]
–verb (used with object), verb (used without object)
1. to draw or gather into wrinkles or irregular folds, as material or a part of the face; constrict: Worry puckered his brow.
–noun
2. a wrinkle; an irregular fold.
3. a puckered part, as of cloth tightly or crookedly sewn.
4. Archaic. a state of agitation or perturbation.
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Origin:
1590–1600; appar. a freq. form connected with poke 2 ; see -er 6 and for the meaning cf. purse

Related forms:
puck⋅er⋅er, noun
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puck·er   (pŭk'ər)   
v.   puck·ered, puck·er·ing, puck·ers

v.   tr.
To gather into small wrinkles or folds: puckered my lips; puckered the curtains.
v.   intr.
To become gathered, contracted, and wrinkled.
n.  

  1. A wrinkle or wrinkled part, as in tightly stitched cloth.

  2. A facial expression in which the lips are tightly pulled together and pushed outward.

  3. A tart flavor that causes one's lips to pucker: the pucker of lemon.


[Probably frequentative of dialectal pock, bag, sack, variant of poke3.]
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Word Origin & History

pucker 
1598, possibly a frequentative form of pock, dialectal variant of poke "bag, sack," which would give it the same notion as in to purse the lips.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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