unpucker

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ pucker.

Verb

unpucker (third-person singular simple present unpuckers, present participle unpuckering, simple past and past participle unpuckered)

1. (ambitransitive) To smooth away the puckers or wrinkles (of); to relax or unclench.

   unpucker your lips

   • 1865, Thomas Carlyle, History of Frederick the Great:

     King. "Bethink you a little; I will walk about" (Gellert bethinks him, brow puckered. King , seeing the brow unpucker itself.) "Well, have you one?"

   • 1877, Me! - Volume 41, page 141:

     How I wish I could whistle! If I could pucker up my mouth, and pitch it to just the right key, I wouldn't unpucker it in a week.

   • 2013, David Abrams, Fobbit, page 177:

     Now, deep inside the Desert Camouflage Uniform pants of the most nervous staff officers crowded around SMOG stations in the palace, assholes were starting to unpucker — if not quite all the way, then there was certainly a little more sphincter breathability in the wedged-up cotton Hanes; or, in the case of those who went commando, the sandy folds of DCU'ed butts.

   • 2022, Joshua Buller, Savants of Humanity:

     I marveled at how any man could be so ugly as that poor soul, with his leathery pale skin and dried lips that looked as they couldn't unpucker if he tried.

References

• “unpucker”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.