pucker

1. 1.

   an irregular fold in an otherwise even surface (as in cloth)

   Synonymsruck

   Broaderfold

Other forms of pucker

plural

puckers·

past tense

puckerred·

present participle

puckerring·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about pucker

What does pucker mean?

pucker means "to gather something into small wrinkles or folds". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pucker?

pucker has 2 syllables: puc-ker. The stress falls on "puc". In IPA it is /ˈpʌkɚ/.

What is another word for pucker?

Close synonyms include rumple, cockle, crumple, knit, gather. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pucker a common word?

pucker is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.