different between pucker vs corrugate

English

Etymology

Probable alteration of poke (verb, or the noun meaning "a small bag").

Verb

pucker (third-person singular simple present puckers, present participle puckering, simple past and past participle puckered)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To pinch or wrinkle; to squeeze inwardly, to dimple or fold.
   • 1893, Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Adventure of the Crooked Man".

     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.

   • 1914, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, Chapter 13.

     The conduct of the white strangers it was that caused him the greatest perturbation. He puckered his brows into a frown of deep thought.

Derived terms

• pucker up

Translations

Noun

pucker (plural puckers)

1. A fold or wrinkle.
   • 1921, Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow, Chapter 3.

     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.

2. (colloquial) A state of perplexity or anxiety; confusion; bother; agitation.
   • 1874, Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd.

     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!"

Translations

English

Etymology

From Latin corr?g? (“I wrinkle; I corrugate”), from con- + r?ga (“furrow”). Compare Spanish acurrucar (“to snuggle; to curl up because of the cold; to huddle”).

Verb

corrugate (third-person singular simple present corrugates, present participle corrugating, simple past and past participle corrugated)

1. (of the skin) To wrinkle.
2. To fold into parallel folds, grooves or ridges.

Derived terms

• corrugated

Translations

Adjective

corrugate (comparative more corrugate, superlative most corrugate)

1. (obsolete) corrugated; wrinkled; crumpled; furrowed

Italian

Verb

corrugate

1. second-person plural present indicative of corrugare
2. second-person plural imperative of corrugare
3. feminine plural of corrugato

Latin

Verb

corr?g?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of corr?g?