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pucker

verb
/ˈpʌkə(ɹ)/

Etymology

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.

  1. inherited from pukkeren — “to hoard, save”

Definitions

  1. To pinch or wrinkle (especially a body part)

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

    • Now the skin was puckered into a million wrinkles, and on the shapeless face was the stamp of unutterable age.

  2. A fold or wrinkle.

  3. A state of perplexity or anxiety

    A 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!"
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. The anus.

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

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