pucker: [16] The etymological notion underlying pucker seems to be of forming into ‘pockets’ or small baglike wrinkles (the same idea led to the use of the verb purse for ‘wrinkle, pucker’ – now dated in general usage, but fossilized in the expression purse the lips). The word was based on the stem pock- of pocket.
pucker (v.)
1590s, "prob. earlier in colloquial use" [OED], possibly a frequentative form of pock, dialectal variant of poke "bag, sack" (see poke (n.1)), which would give it the same notion as in purse (v.). "Verbs of this type often shorten or obscure the original vowel; compare clutter, flutter, putter, etc." [Barnhart]. Related: Puckered; puckering.
pucker (n.)
1726, literal; 1741, figurative; from pucker (v.).
雙語(yǔ)例句
1. His morning - coat fits him without a pucker.
他的晨禮服非常合身,穿起來(lái)連一條皺紋也沒(méi)有.
來(lái)自《現(xiàn)代漢英綜合大詞典》
2. But she , with a pucker in her brows, was watching Rhett.
可思嘉正蹙著眉頭在看瑞德.
來(lái)自飄（部分）
3. You gotta pucker up your lips, like this . Hm.
你必須撅起你的雙唇, 就像這樣.
來(lái)自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)
4. This waistcoat has a propensity to pucker up over the chest.
這件背心的胸部常常要皺攏來(lái).
來(lái)自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)
5. A small fold or pucker made by gathering cloth.