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puckered


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Pucker  \Puck"er\,  v.  t.  &  i.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Puckered};  p.  pr  & 
  vb  n.  {Puckering}.]  [From  {Poke}  a  pocket,  small  bag.] 
  To  gather  into  small  folds  or  wrinkles;  to  contract  into 
  ridges  and  furrows;  to  corrugate;  --  often  with  up  as  to 
  pucker  up  the  mouth.  ``His  skin  [was]  puckered  up  in 
  wrinkles.''  --Spectator. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  puckered 
  adj  1:  used  especially  of  fabrics;  having  puckers 
  2:  (used  of  the  skin  of  the  face)  contracted  into  wrinkles;  "a 
  puckered-up  mouth  waiting  to  be  kissed";  "her  mischievous 
  puckered  nose"  [syn:  {puckered-up}] 




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