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pucker

/puhk-er/US // ˈpʌk ər //UK // (ˈpʌkə) //

折皱,褶皱,撅嘴,撅起

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Definitions

  1. 1
    • : to draw or gather into wrinkles or irregular folds, as material or a part of the face; constrict: Worry puckered his brow.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a wrinkle; an irregular fold.
    • : a puckered part, as of cloth tightly or crookedly sewn.
    • : Archaic. a state of agitation or perturbation.

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Examples

  • Cranberry sauce should be sweet but not cloying, and tart without causing pucker and anguish.

  • She is the author of two young adult novels, The Map That Breathed and Pucker.

  • On this occasion, however, it failed to produce anything more than a woebegone pucker that foreshadowed something worse.

  • But how about the pucker along your spine, and the awfully foolish, grinny feeling around your cheek-bones?

  • Joan thought hard for a minute, with a pucker in her white brow.

  • Aunt Betsy said she feared they had not sewed the braid on straight or the pants wouldn't pucker so at the knees.

  • Elizabeth looked up with a worried pucker between her girlish brows.