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third-person singular simple present puckers, present participle puckering, simple past and past participle puckered
(transitive, intransitive) To pinch or wrinkle; to squeeze inwardly, to dimple or fold. quotations examples
Now the skin was puckered into a million wrinkles, and on the shapeless face was the stamp of unutterable age.
1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887
plural puckers
A fold or wrinkle. quotations examples
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.
1921, Aldous Huxley, chapter 3, in Crome Yellow, London: Chatto & Windus
(colloquial) A state of perplexity or anxiety; confusion; bother; agitation. quotations examples
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!"
1874, Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd.