PUCKER, PUCKERED
ADJECTIVES
► BUMFLY of clothing, etc.: rumpled, puckered; bulging; of a person; wearing such clothing, untidy in appearance → 1887 Sc. & N. Ireland
► PURSY of the skin, cloth, etc.: puckered, wrinkled → 1552
► SHROCKLED puckered, wrinkled → 1790 Eng. dial.
NOUNS
► BUMFLE a wrinkle, pucker, or unattractive bulge in a piece of clothing, etc. → 1867 Sc. & N. Ireland
VERBS
► BUMFLE to cause clothing etc. to gather in untidy folds and wrinkles; to rumple, to pucker → 1911 chiefly Sc. & N. Ireland
► GOFFER to pucker → B1900 Sc.
► PURSE to become wrinkled, to pucker → 1597
► REEVE to draw into wrinkles; to pucker; to twist round; to shrivel up; to roll up the sleeves → 1821 Eng. dial.
► WIZZLE to shrivel or dry up, to become wrinkled; to pucker → 1834 Amer. dial.
► WRIMPLE to pucker the face → 1657 obs.
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