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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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