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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PUCK'ER, v.t. [L. pectus; Gr. signifies closely, densely, to cover.] To gather into small folds or wrinkles; to contract into ridges and furrows; to corrugate.
His face pale and withered, and his skin puckered in wrinkles.
It is usually followed by up; as, to pucker up cloth; but up is superfluous. It is a popular word, but not elegant.
PUCK'ER, n. A fold or wrinkle, or a collection of folds.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: an irregular fold in an otherwise even surface (as in cloth) [syn: pucker, ruck] v
1: to gather something into small wrinkles or folds; "She puckered her lips" [syn: pucker, rumple, cockle, crumple, knit]
2: draw together into folds or puckers [syn: gather, pucker, tuck]
3: become wrinkled or drawn together; "her lips puckered" [syn: pucker, ruck, ruck up]

Merriam Webster's

I. verb (puckered; puckering) Etymology: probably irregular from ¹poke Date: 1598 intransitive verb to become wrinkled or constricted transitive verb to contract into folds or wrinkles II. noun Date: circa 1750 a fold or wrinkle in a normally even surface

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v. & n. --v.tr. & intr. (often foll. by up) gather or cause to gather into wrinkles, folds, or bulges (puckered her eyebrows; this seam is puckered up). --n. such a wrinkle, bulge, fold, etc. Derivatives: puckery adj. Etymology: prob. frequent., formed as POKE(2), POCKET (cf. PURSE)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Pucker Puck"er, n. 1. A fold; a wrinkle; a collection of folds. 2. A state of perplexity or anxiety; confusion; bother; agitation. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U. S.]

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(puckers, puckering, puckered) When a part of your face puckers or when you pucker it, it becomes tight or stretched, often because you are trying not to cry or are going to kiss someone. Toby's face puckered... She puckered her lips into a rosebud and kissed him on the nose. VERB: V, V n • puckered ...puckered lips. ...a long puckered scar. ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. v. a. Corrugate, furrow, cockle, wrinkle, crinkle, crease, gather into wrinkles or folds, gather. II. n. Fold, wrinkle, crinkle, crease, furrow.

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

All in a pucker; in a dishabille. Also in a fright; as, she was in a terrible pucker.

Moby Thesaurus

abbreviate, agitation, all-overs, angst, anxiety, anxiety hysteria, anxiety neurosis, anxious bench, anxious concern, anxious seat, anxiousness, apprehension, apprehensiveness, befuddlement, bewilderment, bother, botheration, cankerworm of care, care, chaos, circumscribe, cloud, coarct, cocker, cockle, compact, compress, concentrate, concern, concernment, condense, confusion, consolidate, constrict, constringe, contract, corrugate, corrugation, cramp, crankle, crease, crimp, crimple, crinkle, crinkling, crumple, curtail, daze, decrease, discombobulation, discomfiture, discomposure, disconcertion, disorder, disorganization, disorientation, disquiet, disquietude, distress, disturbance, dither, draw, draw in, draw together, dread, embarrassment, fear, flap, flummox, flurry, fluster, flusteration, flustration, flutter, fog, fold, foofaraw, foreboding, forebodingness, frenzy, fret, fuddle, fuddlement, furrow, fuss, gather, haze, inquietude, jumble, knit, knot, lather, malaise, maze, mess, misgiving, mist, muddle, muddlement, narrow, nervous strain, nervous tension, nervousness, overanxiety, perplexity, perturbation, pins and needles, pleat, pother, pucker up, purse, reduce, ridge, rimple, ripple, rivel, ruche, ruck, ruckle, ruffle, rumple, screw up, shirr, shirring, shorten, shuffle, solicitude, solidify, squeeze, stew, strain, strangle, strangulate, suspense, sweat, swivet, tension, tighten, tizzy, trouble, tuck, twitter, twitteration, uneasiness, unquietness, unsettlement, upset, vexation, wimple, wrinkle, wrinkling, zeal