Crossword-Solution: PUCKER
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Pucker | v. t. & i. | To gather into small folds or wrinkles; to contract into ridges and furrows; to corrugate; -- often with up; as, to pucker up the mouth. |
| Pucker | n. | A fold; a wrinkle; a collection of folds. |
| Pucker | n. | A state of perplexity or anxiety; confusion; bother; agitation. |
We have 21 clues for the answer “PUCKER”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| Wrinkle or contract, as the lips | 1 answer |
| an irregular fold in an otherwise even surface | 1 answer |
| Tightly gather, as lips | 1 answer |
| React to sourness | 1 answer |
| React to a sour taste | 1 answer |
| React to a lemon | 1 answer |
| Purse the lips, with "up" | 1 answer |
| Prepare to smooch | 1 answer |
| Prepare to kiss (with "up") | 1 answer |
| Make a face for a selfie, maybe | 1 answer |
| Lemon effect | 1 answer |
| Gather into wrinkles | 1 answer |
| Gather into small folds. | 1 answer |
| Ape fish? | 2 answers |
| Wait for a buss | 2 answers |
| Prepare to kiss | 3 answers |
| Prelude to a kiss | 4 answers |
| buss | 13 answers |
| Purse | 15 answers |
| crease | 22 answers |
| Wrinkle | 29 answers |
✏️ Suggest another clue
Know another question for crossword solution "PUCKER"? Please add your clue to the biggest crossword databank now!
Kind of apple
?
E
?
A
?
T
?
E
?
R
Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AERET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
12 +1
New Suggestion for "PUCKER"
Related word tools
Sentences with PUCKER (5)
The chief offender seemed to be his highness’s brother, whose name alone would lengthen the old man’s lantern jaws and pucker his parrot nose into a sneer.
And, sir, while he was a-tearing right down through those snags, and I a-shaking in my shoes and praying, I wish I may never speak again if he didn't pucker up his mouth and go to _whistling_! Yes, sir; whistling “Buffalo gals, can't you come out tonight, can't you come out to-night, can't you come out to-night;” and doing it as calmly as if we were attending a funeral and weren't related to the corpse.
Don't pick 'em, for they'd pucker up your mouth and--Ooo! here come plums!" and she tucked her apple in her apron pocket and captured three plums--each one almost as big as an egg--before they disappeared.
That pucker on the forehead stood for the Mutiny, perhaps; that line of care for the Crimean winter, it may be; and that last little sheaf of wrinkles, as my fancy hoped, for the death of Gordon.
Nevertheless, there was just about half as much money coming in as formerly, and the quaint little pucker between M'sieu's eyebrows which served for a frown came oftener and stayed longer than ever before.
Quotes with PUCKER (3)
When life gives you lemons, you don't make lemonade. That's for pantywaisters. No. You pucker up, suck them dry, then throw the used rinds back in life's face with a giant fuck-you and a gesture for more.
I've been called promiscuous. Not a pretty word, is it? Makes you think of the gloop that comes out of your nose or what comes up your throat when you're gagging, if you're trying to swallow down something you didn't necessarily mean to swallow. Promiscuous: your face has to pucker when you say it. I prefer to think of myself as an adventurer. Charting the souls of so many of god's creatures, and of the floaty beings that populate the land of notions. It's a job. It's a calli…
Victorian rigidities were such that ladies were not even allowed to blow out candles in mixed company, as that required them to pucker their lips suggestively. They could not say that they were going "to bed"--that planted too stimulating an image--but merely that they were "retiring." It became effectively impossible to discuss clothing in even a clinical sense without resort to euphemisms. Trousers became "nether integuments" or simply "inexpressibles" and underwear was "li…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 17 times in crossword archives (1960–2024).