pucker

[PUCKER, v.] A fold, a wrinkle; a number of folds or wrinkles. To be in a pucker: To be in a state of flutter, agitation, or anxiety. "The whole parish was in a pucker ." -Smollett : Peregrine Pickle , ch. ii. pŭck-ered, pa. par. or a. [PUCKER, v.] puck-ered-ne , s . [Eng. puckered ; -ne .] The state or condition of being puckered or wrinkled. puck-er-er, s . [Eng. pucker , v.; -er.] One who or that which puckers.