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  • adjective of features of the face contracted so as to form wrinkles.

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Examples

  • The kids could tell from his puckered-up face whether it was too sour.

    E Is for Environment Ian James Corlett 2011

  • The kids could tell from his puckered-up face whether it was too sour.

    E Is for Environment Ian James Corlett 2011

  • My earliest recall of old puckered-up Mike Wallace he's totally surrounded by cigarette smoke.

    A Hard-Hitting Daily Growler Report The Daily Growler 2006

  • With her little Chinese eyes and her puckered-up face, she would never marry; one could not take her painting very seriously; she was an independent little creature, and Mrs Ramsay liked her for it; so, remembering her promise, she bent her head.

    To the Lighthouse 2002

  • She remembered her mother at thirty-four -- she had looked like a puckered-up old yellow apple, sour, she had always looked sour, she had always looked like she wasn't satisfied with anything.

    AGoodManIsHardToFindAndOtherStories O'Connor, Flannery 1955

  • If John had a good time, what did he care if Lizzy did grow into a gray-haired, puckered-up old maid, like Miss Case, with nobody to love her, or take care of her, or ask about her, or -- or -- kiss her?

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859 Various

  • Joy answered with a toss of her head and a puckered-up grin.

    The Merriweather Girls in Quest of Treasure Lizette M. Edholm

  • "He looks like a skinned rabbit with a puckered-up old-man's face."

    A Farewell To Arms Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 1929

  • Hazel set the lamp on a table, and turning to the bundle of blankets which filled this new piece of furniture, drew back one corner, revealing a round, puckered-up infant face.

    North of Fifty-Three Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926

  • He had Abe's puckered-up lips and Abe's steady sad eyes ....

    The Path of the King John Buchan 1907

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