"pucker" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈpʌkə(ɹ)/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-pucker.wav Forms: puckers [plural]
Rhymes: -ʌkə(ɹ) Etymology: Origin obscure. Perhaps continuing Middle English pukkeren (“to hoard, save”, literally “to sack, stow away in a poke or bag”) with a change in meaning (compare to purse (“to pucker”)). Alternatively, perhaps a direct alteration of poke (verb, or the noun meaning "a small bag"). Etymology templates: {{unk|en|title=obscure}} obscure, {{inh|en|enm|pukkeren|lit=to sack, stow away in a poke or bag|t=to hoard, save}} Middle English pukkeren (“to hoard, save”, literally “to sack, stow away in a poke or bag”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} pucker (plural puckers)
  1. A fold or wrinkle. Translations (A fold or wrinkle): կնճիռ (knčiṙ) (Armenian), гънка (gǎnka) [feminine] (Bulgarian), бръчка (brǎčka) [feminine] (Bulgarian), rimpel (Dutch), frons (Dutch), kurttu (Finnish), ryppy (Finnish), pli [masculine] (French), fronce [feminine, rare] (French), furca [masculine] (Irish), zmarszczka [feminine] (Polish), скла́дка (skládka) [feminine] (Russian), морщи́на (morščína) (note: esp. on the face) [feminine] (Russian), arruga [feminine] (Spanish), rynka [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-pucker-en-noun--yI0vSw7 Disambiguation of 'A fold or wrinkle': 98 2 0
  2. (colloquial) A state of perplexity or anxiety; confusion; bother; agitation. Tags: colloquial Translations (A sour situation): расте́рянность (rastérjannostʹ) (english: perplexity) [feminine] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-pucker-en-noun-MQwFVbvc Disambiguation of 'A sour situation': 20 80 0
  3. (slang) The anus. Tags: slang
    Sense id: en-pucker-en-noun-TO8onq6H
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: pucker factor

Verb

IPA: /ˈpʌkə(ɹ)/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-pucker.wav Forms: puckers [present, singular, third-person], puckering [participle, present], puckered [participle, past], puckered [past]
Rhymes: -ʌkə(ɹ) Etymology: Origin obscure. Perhaps continuing Middle English pukkeren (“to hoard, save”, literally “to sack, stow away in a poke or bag”) with a change in meaning (compare to purse (“to pucker”)). Alternatively, perhaps a direct alteration of poke (verb, or the noun meaning "a small bag"). Etymology templates: {{unk|en|title=obscure}} obscure, {{inh|en|enm|pukkeren|lit=to sack, stow away in a poke or bag|t=to hoard, save}} Middle English pukkeren (“to hoard, save”, literally “to sack, stow away in a poke or bag”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} pucker (third-person singular simple present puckers, present participle puckering, simple past and past participle puckered)
  1. (transitive, intransitive) To pinch or wrinkle (especially a body part); to squeeze inwardly, to dimple or fold. Tags: intransitive, transitive Derived forms: pucker up Translations (to pinch or wrinkle; to squeeze inwardly, to dimple or fold): набръчквам (nabrǎčkvam) (Bulgarian), fronsen (Dutch), mutristaa (Finnish), kurtistaa (Finnish), rypistää (Finnish), törröttää (Finnish), мо́рщить (mórščitʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), намо́рщить (namórščitʹ) [perfective] (Russian), arrugar (Spanish), rynka (Swedish)
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          "ref": "1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:",
          "text": "Now the skin was puckered into a million wrinkles, and on the shapeless face was the stamp of unutterable age.",
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        },
        {
          "text": "1893, Arthur Conan Doyle, \"The Adventure of the Crooked Man\".\nHe had a very dark, fearsome face, and a gleam in his eyes that comes back to me in my dreams. His hair and whiskers were shot with gray, and his face was all crinkled and puckered like a withered apple."
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        "To pinch or wrinkle (especially a body part); to squeeze inwardly, to dimple or fold."
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        "(transitive, intransitive) To pinch or wrinkle (especially a body part); to squeeze inwardly, to dimple or fold."
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      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "nabrǎčkvam",
      "sense": "to pinch or wrinkle; to squeeze inwardly, to dimple or fold",
      "word": "набръчквам"
    },
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      "code": "nl",
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      "sense": "to pinch or wrinkle; to squeeze inwardly, to dimple or fold",
      "word": "fronsen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to pinch or wrinkle; to squeeze inwardly, to dimple or fold",
      "word": "mutristaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to pinch or wrinkle; to squeeze inwardly, to dimple or fold",
      "word": "kurtistaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to pinch or wrinkle; to squeeze inwardly, to dimple or fold",
      "word": "rypistää"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to pinch or wrinkle; to squeeze inwardly, to dimple or fold",
      "word": "törröttää"
    },
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "mórščitʹ",
      "sense": "to pinch or wrinkle; to squeeze inwardly, to dimple or fold",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "мо́рщить"
    },
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "namórščitʹ",
      "sense": "to pinch or wrinkle; to squeeze inwardly, to dimple or fold",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "намо́рщить"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to pinch or wrinkle; to squeeze inwardly, to dimple or fold",
      "word": "arrugar"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to pinch or wrinkle; to squeeze inwardly, to dimple or fold",
      "word": "rynka"
    }
  ],
  "word": "pucker"
}

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    "Rhymes:English/ʌkə(ɹ)",
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    "Terms with Armenian translations",
    "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
    "Terms with Dutch translations",
    "Terms with Finnish translations",
    "Terms with French translations",
    "Terms with Irish translations",
    "Terms with Polish translations",
    "Terms with Russian translations",
    "Terms with Spanish translations",
    "Terms with Swedish translations"
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    {
      "word": "pucker factor"
    }
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          "ref": "1921, Aldous Huxley, chapter 3, in Crome Yellow, London: Chatto & Windus:",
          "text": "The mouth was compressed, and on either side of it two tiny wrinkles had formed themselves in her cheeks. An infinity of slightly malicious amusement lurked in those little folds, in the puckers about the half-closed eyes, in the eyes themselves, bright and laughing between the narrowed lids.",
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          "ref": "1874, Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd.:",
          "text": "What a pucker everything is in!\" said Bathsheba, discontentedly when the child had gone. \"Get away, Maryann, or go on with your scrubbing, or do something! You ought to be married by this time, and not here troubling me!\"",
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        "(colloquial) A state of perplexity or anxiety; confusion; bother; agitation."
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        {
          "ref": "2018, Annathemonstereffer, A Ghost Story:",
          "text": "[…]she felt a pressure at her asshole, a cock pressing against her pucker, trying to slide in.",
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        }
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        "The anus."
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      "links": [
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          "anus",
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        "(slang) The anus."
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      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "knčiṙ",
      "sense": "A fold or wrinkle",
      "word": "կնճիռ"
    },
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      "code": "bg",
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      "roman": "gǎnka",
      "sense": "A fold or wrinkle",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "гънка"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "brǎčka",
      "sense": "A fold or wrinkle",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "бръчка"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "A fold or wrinkle",
      "word": "rimpel"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "A fold or wrinkle",
      "word": "frons"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "A fold or wrinkle",
      "word": "kurttu"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "A fold or wrinkle",
      "word": "ryppy"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "A fold or wrinkle",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "pli"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "A fold or wrinkle",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "fronce"
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      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "A fold or wrinkle",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "furca"
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      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "A fold or wrinkle",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "zmarszczka"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "skládka",
      "sense": "A fold or wrinkle",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "скла́дка"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "note": "esp. on the face",
      "roman": "morščína",
      "sense": "A fold or wrinkle",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "морщи́на"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "A fold or wrinkle",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "arruga"
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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "A fold or wrinkle",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "rynka"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "english": "perplexity",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "rastérjannostʹ",
      "sense": "A sour situation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "расте́рянность"
    }
  ],
  "word": "pucker"
}

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