'Pucker' definitions:
Definition of 'pucker'
From: WordNet
Definition of 'Pucker'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Pucker'
From: GCIDE
- Pucker \Puck"er\, n.
- 1. A fold; a wrinkle; a collection of folds. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A state of perplexity or anxiety; confusion; bother; agitation. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U. S.] [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'pucker'
From: 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