puck·er (p k  r)v. puck·ered, puck·er·ing, puck·ers v.tr. To gather into small wrinkles or folds: puckered my lips; puckered the curtains. v.intr. To become gathered, contracted, and wrinkled. n. 1. A wrinkle or wrinkled part, as in tightly stitched cloth. 2. A facial expression in which the lips are tightly pulled together and pushed outward. 3. A tart flavor that causes one's lips to pucker: the pucker of lemon. [Probably frequentative of dialectal pock, bag, sack, variant of poke.] |
Translations
puckered
adj lips → gespitzt, geschürzt; brow → gefurcht; skin → zusammengezogen, höckerig; scar → hervortretend; seam → wellig, gewellt
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