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Pucked vs Pucker - What's the difference?

pucked | pucker |

As verbs the difference between pucked and pucker

is that pucked is (puck) while pucker is to pinch or wrinkle; to squeeze inwardly, to dimple or fold.

As a noun pucker is

a fold or wrinkle.

pucked

English

Verb

(head)
  • (puck)

    • puck

    English

    Etymology 1

    Attested since 1886. From or influenced by (etyl) . Compare poke (1861).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (ice hockey) A hard rubber disc; any other flat disc meant to be hit across a flat surface in a game.
  • * 1886 , Boston Daily Globe (28 February), p 2:
    • In hockey a flat piece of rubber, say four inches long by three wide and about an inch thick, called a ‘puck ’, is used.
  • (chiefly, Canada) An object shaped like a puck.
  • * 2004 , Art Directors Annual , v 83, Rotovision, p 142:
    • He reaches into the urinal and picks up the puck'. He then walk over to the sink and replaces a bar of soap with the urinal ' puck .
  • (computing) A pointing device with a crosshair.
    • Derived terms
    * hockey puck * puck bunny * puck carrier * puck chaser * puck chasing * puck crown * puck-dribbling * puck-handler * puck-handling * puck palace * puck-pusher * puck sense * puck-shy * puckster * rag the puck
    See also
    * (Hockey puck)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) . More at (l).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A mischievous spirit.
    • Derived terms
    * puckish ----

    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.