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pucker up en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio

Meanings

  1. (ambitransitive) To contract a facial feature so as to form wrinkles; used especially of the lips when whistling or kissing.
    • Pucker up your lips!
    • Pucker up and gimme a kiss!
    • Sucker love is heaven sent / You pucker up, our passion's spent 1998, “Every You Every Me”, in Without You I’m Nothing, performed by Placebo:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
puckered up Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
puckered up Tense=Past lexicographic
puckers up Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
puckering up Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Translations (12)

cs špulit (ústa) (To contract a facial feature so as to form wrinkles) · bg свия устни (To contract a facial feature so as to form wrinkles) · ru вытя́гивать губки (To contract a facial feature so as to form wrinkles) · fi mutristaa (To contract a facial feature so as to form wrinkles) · bg цупя се (To contract a facial feature so as to form wrinkles) · bg свивам устни (To contract a facial feature so as to form wrinkles) · pl zmarszczyć (To contract a facial feature so as to form wrinkles) · ru мо́рщиться (To contract a facial feature so as to form wrinkles) · pl ściągać (To contract a facial feature so as to form wrinkles) · pl marszczyć (To contract a facial feature so as to form wrinkles) · pl ściągnąć (To contract a facial feature so as to form wrinkles) · cs našpulit (To contract a facial feature so as to form wrinkles)