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Mucker vs Pucker - What's the difference?

mucker | pucker |

As nouns the difference between mucker and pucker

is that mucker is (uk|slang|southern) friend while pucker is a fold or wrinkle.

As verbs the difference between mucker and pucker

is that mucker is (obsolete|transitive) to scrape together (money, etc) by mean labour or shifts while pucker is to pinch or wrinkle; to squeeze inwardly, to dimple or fold.

mucker

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (UK, slang, southern) friend
    • Fancy a pint, me old mucker ?
  • (slang, Northern Ireland) friend or acquaintance
    • How's about ye mucker ? = How are you?
  • A person who removes muck (waste, debris, broken rock, etc.), especially from a mine, construction site, or stable.
  • (archaic, derogatory) A low or vulgar labourer.

    • Usage notes

    * Mucker , in the friendly senses, is used almost exclusively by a man to another man.

    Synonyms

    * (friend) See

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To scrape together (money, etc.) by mean labour or shifts.
    • (Udall)
    (Webster 1913)

    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.