| slovo | definícia |
pucker
(encz) | pucker,vráska n: Zdeněk Brož |
pucker
(encz) | pucker,záhyb n: Zdeněk Brož |
pucker
(encz) | pucker,zvrásnění n: Zdeněk Brož |
pucker
(encz) | pucker,zvrásnit v: Zdeněk Brož |
Pucker
(gcide) | Pucker \Puck"er\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Puckered; p. pr. &
vb. n. Puckering.] [From Poke a pocket, small bag.]
To gather into small folds or wrinkles; to contract into
ridges and furrows; to corrugate; -- often with up; as, to
pucker up the mouth. "His skin [was] puckered up in
wrinkles." --Spectator.
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Pucker
(gcide) | Pucker \Puck"er\, n.
1. A fold; a wrinkle; a collection of folds.
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2. A state of perplexity or anxiety; confusion; bother;
agitation. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U. S.]
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pucker
(wn) | pucker
n 1: an irregular fold in an otherwise even surface (as in
cloth) [syn: pucker, ruck]
v 1: to gather something into small wrinkles or folds; "She
puckered her lips" [syn: pucker, rumple, cockle,
crumple, knit]
2: draw together into folds or puckers [syn: gather, pucker,
tuck]
3: become wrinkled or drawn together; "her lips puckered" [syn:
pucker, ruck, ruck up] |
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puckerbush
(encz) | puckerbush, n: |
puckered
(encz) | puckered, adj: |
puckered-up
(encz) | puckered-up, adj: |
puckering
(encz) | puckering,svraštění n: Zdeněk Brož |
Pucker
(gcide) | Pucker \Puck"er\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Puckered; p. pr. &
vb. n. Puckering.] [From Poke a pocket, small bag.]
To gather into small folds or wrinkles; to contract into
ridges and furrows; to corrugate; -- often with up; as, to
pucker up the mouth. "His skin [was] puckered up in
wrinkles." --Spectator.
[1913 Webster]Pucker \Puck"er\, n.
1. A fold; a wrinkle; a collection of folds.
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2. A state of perplexity or anxiety; confusion; bother;
agitation. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U. S.]
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Puckered
(gcide) | Pucker \Puck"er\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Puckered; p. pr. &
vb. n. Puckering.] [From Poke a pocket, small bag.]
To gather into small folds or wrinkles; to contract into
ridges and furrows; to corrugate; -- often with up; as, to
pucker up the mouth. "His skin [was] puckered up in
wrinkles." --Spectator.
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Puckerer
(gcide) | Puckerer \Puck"er*er\, n.
One who, or that which, puckers.
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Puckering
(gcide) | Pucker \Puck"er\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Puckered; p. pr. &
vb. n. Puckering.] [From Poke a pocket, small bag.]
To gather into small folds or wrinkles; to contract into
ridges and furrows; to corrugate; -- often with up; as, to
pucker up the mouth. "His skin [was] puckered up in
wrinkles." --Spectator.
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puckermouth
(gcide) | Plaice \Plaice\, n. [F. plaise, plais, prob. fr. L. platessa
flatish, plaice. See Place.] (Zool.)
(a) A European food fish (Pleuronectes platessa), allied to
the flounder, and growing to the weight of eight or ten
pounds or more.
(b) A large American flounder (Paralichthys dentatus;
called also brail, puckermouth, and {summer
flounder}. The name is sometimes applied to other allied
species. [Written also plaise.]
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Plaice mouth, a mouth like that of a plaice; a small or wry
mouth. [R.] --B. Jonson.
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Puckery
(gcide) | Puckery \Puck"er*y\, a.
1. Producing, or tending to produce, a pucker; as, a puckery
taste. --Lowell.
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2. Inclined to become puckered or wrinkled; full of puckers
or wrinkles.
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Unpucker
(gcide) | Unpucker \Un*puck"er\, v. t. [1st pref. un- + pucker.]
To smooth away the puckers or wrinkles of.
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puckerbush
(wn) | puckerbush
n 1: evergreen aromatic shrubby tree of southeastern United
States having small hard berries thickly coated with white
wax used for candles [syn: bay myrtle, puckerbush,
Myrica cerifera] |
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