—v.tr. & intr. (often foll. by up) gather or cause to gather into wrinkles, folds, or bulges (puckered her eyebrows; this seam is puckered up).
—n. such a wrinkle, bulge, fold, etc.
Derivatives:
puckery adj.
Etymology: prob. frequent., formed as POKE(2), POCKET (cf. PURSE)
Useful english dictionary. 2012.