pucker

present singular third person puckers · participle present puckering · participle past puckered · past puckered

1. ambitransitiveTo pinch or wrinkle (especially a body part); to squeeze inwardly, to dimple or fold.

   1893, Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Adventure of the Crooked Man". He 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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   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, →OCLC

plural puckers

1. A fold or wrinkle.

   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

2. colloquialA state of perplexity or anxiety; confusion; bother; agitation.

   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.

3. slangThe anus.

   […]she felt a pressure at her asshole, a cock pressing against her pucker, trying to slide in.

   2018, Annathemonstereffer, A Ghost Story

plural puckers

1. IrelandrareA boxer.

   He stood looking in at the two puckers stripped to their pelts and putting up their props.

   1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 10: Wandering Rocks]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 240