PUCKER


Meaning of PUCKER in English

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)

Oxford English vocab.      Оксфордский английский словарь.