Nearby Words
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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Puckers
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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Etymonline
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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