pucker

To gather into small wrinkles or folds.

To become gathered, contracted, and wrinkled.

A wrinkle or wrinkled part, as in tightly stitched cloth.

A facial expression in which the lips are tightly pulled together and pushed outward.

A tart flavor that causes one’s lips to pucker.

To draw up or contract into irregular folds or wrinkles; specifically, in sewing, to gather: often followed by up: as, to pucker cloth in sewing.

To become irregularly ridged or wrinkled: as, his face puckered up into a smile; the mouth puckers on eating choke-cherries.

A drawing or gathering into folds or wrinkles; an irregular folding or wrinkling; a collection of irregularly converging ridges or wrinkles.

A state of flutter, agitation, or confusion.

A fold; a wrinkle; a collection of folds.