Punker vs Pucker - What's the difference?
punker | pucker |
(music, dated) A punk rocker: a performer or enthusiast of punk rock.
* 1988 July 29, Diana Spinrad, "Burnin' With the 8 Ball", :
* 2006 , John De Herrera, The Kingsnake in the Sun (page 72)
To pinch or wrinkle; to squeeze inwardly, to dimple or fold.
A fold or wrinkle.
A state of perplexity or anxiety; confusion; bother; agitation.
As nouns the difference between punker and pucker
is that punker is a punk rocker: a performer or enthusiast of punk rock while pucker is a fold or wrinkle.As a verb pucker is
to pinch or wrinkle; to squeeze inwardly, to dimple or fold.punker
English
Noun
(en noun)- And famous punker Joe Strummer figures prominently in Mercury's life.
- She was a crack-up, she thought she was such a punker . She always had some punk group on her headset.
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.