Etymology

pucker

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Today it means: To pinch or wrinkle (especially a body part); to squeeze inwardly, to dimple or fold. Full definition →

Middle English pukkeren
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pucker · verb, noun1

  1. Middle English · inherited frompukkeren“to hoard, save”
  2. English todaypucker

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 purse (“to pucker”)). Alternatively, perhaps a direct alteration of poke (verb, or the noun meaning "a small bag"). By surface analysis, poke + -er.

pucker · noun2

From puck (“to hit”) + -er.

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