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.).
双语例句
1. His morning - coat fits him without a pucker.
他的晨礼服非常合身,穿起来连一条皱纹也没有.
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2. But she , with a pucker in her brows, was watching Rhett.
可思嘉正蹙着眉头在看瑞德.
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3. You gotta pucker up your lips, like this . Hm.
你必须撅起你的双唇, 就像这样.
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4. This waistcoat has a propensity to pucker up over the chest.
这件背心的胸部常常要皱拢来.
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5. A small fold or pucker made by gathering cloth.
