"pucker up" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-pucker up.wav Forms: puckers up [present, singular, third-person], puckering up [participle, present], puckered up [participle, past], puckered up [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} pucker up (third-person singular simple present puckers up, present participle puckering up, simple past and past participle puckered up)
  1. (ambitransitive) To contract a facial feature so as to form wrinkles; used especially of the lips when whistling or kissing. Tags: ambitransitive Translations (To contract a facial feature so as to form wrinkles): свивам устни (svivam ustni) [imperfective] (Bulgarian), свия устни (svija ustni) [perfective] (Bulgarian), цупя се (cupja se) (Bulgarian), špulit (ústa) [imperfective] (Czech), mutristaa (Finnish), мо́рщиться (mórščitʹsja) [neuter] (Russian), вытя́гивать губки (vytjágivatʹ gubki) [neuter] (Russian)

Inflected forms

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        "(ambitransitive) To contract a facial feature so as to form wrinkles; used especially of the lips when whistling or kissing."
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      "word": "мо́рщиться"
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      "roman": "vytjágivatʹ gubki",
      "sense": "To contract a facial feature so as to form wrinkles",
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