pucker

pucker is a 6-letter English word with 7 senses as transitive/intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To gather into small folds or wrinkles; to contract into ridges and furrows; to corrugate; -- often with up; as, to pucker up the mouth. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 17 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. transitive/intransitive verb. To gather into small folds or wrinkles; to contract into ridges and furrows; to corrugate; -- often with up; as, to pucker up the mouth.
2. noun. A fold; a wrinkle; a collection of folds.
3. noun. A state of perplexity or anxiety; confusion; bother; agitation.
4. noun. an irregular fold in an otherwise even surface (as in cloth)

   Synonyms: ruck

5. verb. to gather something into small wrinkles or folds

   "She puckered her lips"

   Synonyms: cockle, crumple, knit, rumple

6. verb. become wrinkled or drawn together

   "her lips puckered"

   Synonyms: ruck

7. verb. draw together into folds or puckers

   Synonyms: gather, tuck

Synonyms

ruck, cockle, crumple, knit, rumple, gather, tuck

Common word forms

puckers, puckered, puckerer, puckering

Words from these letters

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