pucker
Tighten before kissing
To pucker is to draw together into wrinkles or folds, typically by tightening muscles: She puckered her lips for a kiss.
Fabric puckers when it gathers unevenly.
A pucker is the resulting wrinkle or crease.
Sour tastes make the mouth pucker involuntarily.
Pucker up is an invitation to kiss.
Surface fold or crease
- crinkleSmall fold or rustle
- creaseLine from folding
- furrowNarrow trench in earth
- corrugateForm into folds
rumple · crumple · dimple · ripple · ridge · fold · shrivel · shrink
wrinkle
Surface fold or crease
corrugate · rumple · crumple · dimple · ripple · ridge · fold · shrivel · shrink · contract
lips
Mouth's outer edges
smooch · peck · pout · scrunch · pinch · draw · tighten · compress · narrow · crimp
gather
Bring or come together
tuck · seam · fold · crease · ruche · smock · drape · cinch · drawstring · elastic
tart
Sharp-flavored small pie
lime · grapefruit · astringent · acidic · tangy · sharp · bitter · acerbic · pickled · unripe
puckersmooth
Without roughness or difficulty
flatten · smoothness · unwrinkle · even out · slick
- pucker upReady mouth for kiss
- puckered upLips contracted for kissing
- puckering upTightening lips outward
- pucker factorSlang for acute fear
puckered, puckering up, puckering, puckers, puckery, pucker up