different between punker vs pucker

English

Etymology

punk +? -er

Noun

punker (plural punkers)

1. (music, dated slang) Synonym of punk: a musician known for playing punk rock or a fan of the genre.
   • 1988 July 29, Diana Spinrad, "Burnin' With the 8 Ball", Chicago Reader:

     And famous punker Joe Strummer figures prominently in Mercury's life.

   • 2006, John De Herrera, The Kingsnake in the Sun (page 72)

     She was a crack-up, she thought she was such a punker. She always had some punk group on her headset.

Anagrams

• unperk

Dutch

Etymology

Either borrowed from English punker or natively formed from punk +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p??.k?r/
• Hyphenation: pun?ker

Noun

punker m (plural punkers)

1. (music) A punk (fan of punk rock, member of the punk subculture); (by extension) anyone with a mohawk or a similar distinct hairstyle.

   Synonym: punk

Estonian

Noun

punker (genitive punkri, partitive punkrit)

1. bunker

Declension

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• pønker

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pø?k??/

Noun

punker m (definite singular punkeren, indefinite plural punkere, definite plural punkerne)

1. punk (punk rocker)

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!"

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