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Crinkle vs Pucker - What's the difference?

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As verbs the difference between crinkle and pucker

is that crinkle is to fold, crease, crumple, or wad while pucker is to pinch or wrinkle; to squeeze inwardly, to dimple or fold.

As nouns the difference between crinkle and pucker

is that crinkle is a wrinkle, fold, crease, or unevenness while pucker is a fold or wrinkle.

crinkle

English

Verb

(crinkl)
  • (ambitransitive) To fold, crease, crumple, or wad.
    • He crinkled the wrapper and threw it out.
    The old man's lined face crinkled into a smile.
  • To rustle, as stiff cloth when moved.
  • * L. T. Trowbridge
    • The green wheat crinkles like a lake.
  • * Elizabeth Browning
    • All the rooms were full of crinkling silks.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A wrinkle, fold, crease or unevenness.
    • He observed the crinkles forming around his eyes and suddenly felt old.

    Anagrams

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    pucker

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To pinch or wrinkle; to squeeze inwardly, to dimple or fold.
    • 1914' ''The conduct of the white strangers it was that caused him the greatest perturbation. He '''puckered his brows into a frown of deep thought.'' — Edgar Rice Burroughs, ''Tarzan of the Apes , Chapter 13.
    1893' ''He had a very dark, fearsome face, and a gleam in his eyes that comes back to me in my dreams. His hair and whiskers were shot with gray, and his face was all crinkled and '''puckered like a withered apple. — Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Adventure of the Crooked Man".

    Derived terms

    * pucker up

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A fold or wrinkle.
    • 1921' ''The mouth was compressed, and on either side of it two tiny wrinkles had formed themselves in her cheeks. An infinity of slightly malicious amusement lurked in those little folds, in the '''puckers about the half-closed eyes, in the eyes themselves, bright and laughing between the narrowed lids. — Aldous Huxley, ''Crome Yellow , Chapter 3.
  • A state of perplexity or anxiety; confusion; bother; agitation.
    • 1874' ''"What a '''pucker everything is in!" said Bathsheba, discontentedly when the child had gone. "Get away, Maryann, or go on with your scrubbing, or do something! You ought to be married by this time, and not here troubling me!"'' — Thomas Hardy, '' Far From the Madding Crowd.