Pucker vs Rumple - What's the difference?
pucker | rumple | Related terms |
To pinch or wrinkle; to squeeze inwardly, to dimple or fold.
A fold or wrinkle.
A state of perplexity or anxiety; confusion; bother; agitation.
To make wrinkled, particularly of fabric.
* Burke
To muss.
To tousle.
Pucker is a related term of rumple.
As verbs the difference between pucker and rumple
is that pucker is to pinch or wrinkle; to squeeze inwardly, to dimple or fold while rumple is to make wrinkled, particularly of fabric.As a noun pucker
is a fold or wrinkle.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.
rumple
English
Verb
- I'll rumple my bedsheets so it looks like I was here last night.
- They would not give a dog's ear of their most rumpled and ragged Scotch paper for twenty of your fairest assignats.
