puckerer

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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.

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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Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2009.
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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.

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