Pucker vs Picker - What's the difference?
pucker | picker |
To pinch or wrinkle; to squeeze inwardly, to dimple or fold.
A fold or wrinkle.
A state of perplexity or anxiety; confusion; bother; agitation.
Agent noun of pick; one who picks.
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, title= (computing, graphical user interface) Any user interface control that selects something.
(engineering) A machine for picking fibrous materials to pieces so as to loosen and separate the fibre.
(weaving) The piece in a loom that strikes the end of the shuttle and impels it through the warp.
(military) A priming wire for cleaning the vent, in ordnance.
(slang, gold panning) A fragment of gold smaller than a nugget but large enough to be picked up.
As nouns the difference between pucker and picker
is that pucker is a fold or wrinkle while picker is agent noun of pick; one who picks.As a verb pucker
is to pinch or wrinkle; to squeeze inwardly, to dimple or fold.pucker
English
Verb
(en verb)- 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 upNoun
(en noun)- 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.
- 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.
picker
English
Noun
(en noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=That concertina was a wonder in its way. The handles that was on it first was wore out long ago, and he'd made new ones of braided rope yarn. And the bellows was patched in more places than a cranberry picker' s overalls.}}