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▪ I. pucker, n.1|ˈpʌkə(r)|
[f. pucker v.]
1. A ridge, wrinkle, or corrugation of the skin or other substance, or a number of small wrinkles running across and into one another; esp. one caused in sewing together two edges of cloth, etc., by keeping the one edge fuller than the other, or by drawing the thread too tightly, so as to make the seam shorter than the cloth on either side.
1744–50W. Ellis Mod. Husbandm. VI. iii. 54 The Tasker does not make use of those sweeping horizontal Strokes..if he does, he will beat up the Straw in Puckers. 1773Johnson, Ruff,..2. Any thing collected into puckers or corrugations. 1810Bentham Packing (1821) 146 If, on the bed of roses..there be but a single leaf that has a pucker in it. 1836Marryat Midsh. Easy x, The chin..was drawn in with unnatural seams and puckers. 1842S. Lover Handy Andy ii, His face..was screwed up to the scrutinising pucker. 1875Plain Needlework 14 If this be done, even by one thread per stitch, a pucker must necessarily ensue.
2. fig. A state of agitation or excitement; a flutter, a fuss. colloq.
1741Richardson Pamela I. 164 Mrs. Jewkes..sat down by me, and seem'd in a great Pucker. 1801M. Edgeworth Angelina iii, Pe not in a pet or a pucker! 1825J. Neal Bro. Jonathan I. 202 Edith was in tears; Jotham, powerless with amazement;—Miriam, in a ‘plaguy pucker’. 1847J. S. Robb Streaks of Squatter Life i. 15 If I am delayed Gales and Seaton will be very angry, and Blair and Rives get in a pucker. 1883J. Payn Thicker than Water xiii, The few things that did not agitate Mrs. Sotheran, or, to use her own homely phrase, ‘put her into a pucker’. 1888Howells Annie Kilburn xxix, I told William when we first missed her..and he was in such a pucker about her..that [etc.].
3. Comb., as pucker-mouthed adj.
1851Schoolcraft 30 Yrs. Indian Tribes 377 A tall, not portly, red-mouthed, and pucker-mouthed man.
▪ II. pucker, n.2 rare.
[f. puck v.]
A boxer, a fighter.
1922Joyce Ulysses 247 The best pucker going for strength was Fitzsimons... But the best pucker for science was Jem Corbett before Fitzsimons knocked the stuffings out of him.
▪ III. pucker, v.|ˈpʌkə(r)|
[Evidenced in the end of the 16th c., prob. earlier in colloquial use. The form is that of a frequentative: see -er5. The root is prob. to be found in poke n.1, v.2 (dial. pok, pock), pocket, the notion being that of forming small bag-like or purse-like gatherings; cf. purse v. in sense ‘to wrinkle up’, and F. pocher, faire des poches to bag, to pucker. Verbs of this class often shorten or obscure the original vowel: cf. clutter, flutter, sputter, stutter, etc.]
1. intr. To contract or gather into wrinkles, small folds, cockles, or bulges; to become drawn together into irregular wrinkles or corrugations; to cockle. Often with up.
1598Florio, Saccolare, to pucker or gather or cockle as some stuffes do being wet. 1602Marston Antonio's Rev. iii. ii, May I be numd with horror, and my vaines Pucker with sing'ing torture. 1670Sir S. Crow in 12th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. v. 15 The silke..beeing ill woven, will shrink and pucker. a1845Hood Two Peacocks of Bedfont xxv, Ancient lips that puckered up in scorn. 1847Alb. Smith Chr. Tadpole xxvi. (1879) 235 His waistcoat..had a propensity to pucker up over his chest. 1883Hardwich's Photogr. Chem. (ed. Taylor) 368 To ensure a hard film..which will not pucker up.
2. trans. To draw together or contract into wrinkles, bulges, or fullnesses; to draw (the skin, lips, etc.) into ridges and furrows; to draw a seam too tight, so as to make the material bag on either side; to gather one side of (a seam) more fully than the other, either as a fault in sewing, or intentionally for some purpose. Often with up.
1616J. Chamberlain in Crt. & Times Jas. I (1848) I. 423 The nether parts..are crumpled and puckered untowardly. 1639R. Young Sin Stigmatized 19 Hee fell downe and not being able to rise againe had his belly puckered together like a sachell, before the chamberlain could come to help him. 1712Budgell Spect. No. 301 ⁋9 An hideous Spectre,..his Skin puckered up in Wrinkles. 1792A. Young Trav. France 237 Their dress is very becoming; with jackets, the sleeves puckered and tied in puffs, with coloured ribbons. 1835–6Todd's Cycl. Anat. I. 172/1 A continuation of the canal puckered up into numerous folds. 1876M. E. Braddon J. Haggard's Dau. III. 62 Cynthia had finished her dozen of shirts, without a gusset set awry, a seam puckered, or one deviation from a right line. 1886J. K. Jerome Idle Thoughts x. 116 Your pretty face will not be always puckered into wrinkles.
b. absol. To make puckers or bulges in sewing.
1862F. Wilford Maiden of Our Day 98 When she observed poor Fan's big stitches and tendency to pucker. 1881M. E. Braddon Asph. II. 149, I get my thread entangled, and begin to pucker, and the whole business goes wrong.
c. trans. To form by puckering or gathering.
1753in Lond. Mag. Sept. 396 Puff and pucker up knots on your arms and your toes; Make your petticoats short. |