pucker 
It Is forgotten now ; and the tint mention of II puckers 
thy sweet countenance into a sneer. Carlyle. 
The flowers on the potato plants, saucer-shaped by day. 
are now perchance nodding with their open rim puckered 
In gathers around the central stamens a common caprice 
of these flowers, but dctH'iident upon some whim which I 
have not yet solved. Harper'* May., LXXVI1I. 14S. 
TT intrant. To become irregularly ridged or 
wrinkled : as, his face puckered up into a smile ; 
the mouth puckers on eating choke-cherries, 
pucker (puk'er), . [<. pucker, v.'] 1. A draw- 
ing or gathering into folds or wrinkles; an ir- 
regular folding or wrinkling; a collection of 
irregularly converging ridges or wrinkles. 
Rulf, Anything collected Into puckers or corrugations. 
Johnson. 
Hrld from rolling off the seat only by the steady hold of 
her mother in the puckerg of her dress during the rest. 
H'. M. Baker, New Timothy, p. 22. 
The cloth to lie stitched, being placed close up to the 
cog-wheels on the opposite side of where the needle point 
rests, Is dragged in pucken Into the latter, by turning the 
winch handle. Spons' Encyc. Manvf., I. 471. 
2. A state of flutter, agitation, or confusion. 
[Colloq.] 
Well to be sure, the whole parish was In a pucker: some 
thought the French had landed. 
Smollett, Peregrine Pickle (2d ed.X . 
1 told William when we first missed her this mornin', 
and he was In such a pucker about her, I bet anything he 
was a mind to that the child had gone hack to Mlas K il 
burn's. llowell*, Annie Kilburn, xxix. 
puckerer (puk'er-er), H. One who or that which 
puckers, 
puckeridge (puk'er-ij), n. [Origin obscure.] 
1. Tlie night-jar, (.'nprimulgint europ&us. Mon- 
tagu. 2. A fatal distemper of cattle, (lilbert 
ll'hiti: [Prov. Eng. in both uses.] 
puckery (puk'er-i), a. [< pucker + -y 1 .] 1. 
Producing or tending to produce puckers: as, 
a puckery taste (that is, a bitter or astringent 
taste such as may cause the mouth to pucker). 
Some of these wildings (apples) are acrid and puckery, 
genuine verjuice. Thnreau, Excursions, p. 281. 
There are plenty (of American proverbs] that have a 
more native and puckery flavor, seedlings from the old 
stock often, and yet new varieties. 
Lowell, Biglow Papers, 2d ser., Int. 
2. Inclined to become puckered or wrinkled; 
full of puckers or wrinkles : said especially of 
a textile fabric. 
pucket (puk'et), ii. [Origin obscure.] A nest 
of caterpillars. HallhceU. [Prov. Eng.] 
puckfistt (puk'fist), n. \A\*a ptickfaM ; cf. LG. 
pukfitxt, a fist doubled up, < pukken, strike, 
poke, + fust, fist.] 1. A niggardly or close- 
fisted person. 
U, tin) are pinching puckfists! 
B. Jinwon, New Inn, ill. 1. 
Petrarch was a dunce, Dante a jig-maker, 
Sanazzar a goose, and Ariosto A puck-tut to me ! 
Ford, l-ove's Sacrifice, ii. 1. 
For those are pinching puckfnists, and suspicious. 
Fletcher (and another). I-ove's Pilgrimage, I. 1. 
2. Iii hot., a puffball. 
puckfoistt (puk 'foist), . Same as pitekfist. 
puckish (puk'ish), a. [< puck + -ufcl.J Re- 
sembling the fairy Puck; like what Puck might 
do; mervv. ./. K. fircen. 
puckle (puk'l), . [Prob. < ME. 'poukrl, "ptiktl 
(not found), < AS. pucel, a demon (found once, 
in ace. pi. piicelan, glossed by piiapog): see 
piirlc.l HameaspwfA-. [Obsolete or provincial.] 
The spoorne, the mare, the man in the oke, the hell 
waiae, tin- flerdrake, the puckle, Tom thombe, hobgoblin. 
etc. H. Sent, Dlscovcrle of Witchcraft (ed. 1584), vti. 153. 
The scene of fairy revels, . . . the haunt of bulbeggars, 
witches, . . . (and] tbepucHc. S. Judd, Margaret, i. 6. 
puckrelt, Same &spvekle. Hallitcell. 
pucras (pu'kras), M. [Native name.] A pheas- 
ant of the genus I'ltcrasia. P. L. Scloter. 
Pucrasia (pu-kra'si-tt), M. [NL. (G. R. Gray, 
1841), < purrtiK, a native name.] A beautiful 
genus of pheasants of the family I'linnianidte 
and subfamily /.n/ilntplioriiisf, having the head 
crested, the nostrils feathered, the tail long 
and cuneale. the wings short and rounded, in- 
habiting Asia in the Himalayan region, China, 
and purts of India. The common pucras is /'. 
Hiiicrnli>i>liii : the buff-spotted is /'. jinitliosjiilii ; 
I', dui-duceli is a third species. 
pud 1 (pud), n. [Perhaps orig. a slang form of 
I '. i>ot, paw: see ixitr 1 .] A paw; fist; hand. 
[Colloq.] 
The kangaroos your Aborigines do they keep their 
primitive simplicity ua-Enrope-talnted. with those little 
short fore puds, looking like a lesson framed by nature to 
tli' pickpocket? Lamb, Distant Correspondents. 
pud- (p<id). . Same as /mod. 
puddening <pu.l'niiig>. . [So called as mak- 
ing as it were a pudding, i. e. a thick soft inns* 
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around the rope; < puddi-n, a dial, form of 
innlding (see jimtilini/. :i. in same sense), + 
-in// 1 .] Athick pad of rope-yarns, oakum, etc., 
covered with a mat or canvas, and tapering 
from the middle toward the ends, used as a 
fender on the bow of a l>oat. When rope cables 
were used, the covering of soft rope and canvas on the 
ring of an anchor was so called. Also called pudding. 
pudder (pud'er), r. [Also putter; dial, form of 
potter 2 or pother.} 1. intraus. To make a tu- 
mult, bustle, or stir; potter. 
Such as are least able are most bnsle to pudder In the 
rubbish, and to raise dust. X. Ward, Simple t'obler, p. 2. 
Some [flshes] almost alwayesjjtirfi^r in the mud 
Of sleepy Pools. 
Syleester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, i. 5. 
U. /ran*. To perplex; embarrass; confuse; 
bother. 
He that will improve every matter of fact Into a maxim 
will abound in contrary observations, that can be of no 
other use but to perplex and pudder him if he compares 
them. Locke, Conduct of Understanding, 1 13. 
[Obsolete or dialectal in both uses.] 
pudder (pud'er), ii. [< pudder, t;.] A tumult: 
a confused noise; a bustle; pother. 
Some fellows would have cried now. and have cnrs'd thee, 
And fain out with their meat, and kept & pudder; 
But all this helps not. Beau, and Ft., Scornful Lady, ii. 2. 
What a pudder and racket ... in the schools of the 
learned about power and about spirit ! 
Sterne, Tristram Shandy, 11. 2. 
Parkin's I'ints has been makin' n great pudder over to 
England. S. Judd, Margaret, i. 16. 
pudding (pud'ing), M. [Also dial. /'//'W/;/, jiml- 
den; early mod. E. also poding; < ME. pud- 
dyng, poding; appar., with accom. suffix, < Ir. 
pntog = Gael, pittug, a pudding; cf. (with diff. 
term.) W. poten, a paunch, pudding; cf. also 
W.pictyn, a short round body, Corn, pot, a bag, 
pudding, Gael, put, an inflated skin, a large 
buoy. The E. word may have been in part con- 
fused with F. boiidin, black-pudding, blood- 
pudding, roller-pudding (naut.), etc., tilt. < L. 
Ootulug, sausage. The F. poudiny = D. pud- 
ding, podding = LG. pudding, piiilden. hiidden 
= G. Sw. pudding = Dan. budding, pudding, are 
all < E.] 1. Minced meat, or blood, properly 
seasoned, stuffed into an intestine, and cooked 
by boiling. 
As sure as his guts are made of puddings. 
Shak., M. W. of W., II. 1. 32. 
And tii -t they ate the white pudilintj*, 
And syne they ate the black. 
Get up and Bar the Door (Child's Ballads, VIII. !2fiX 
They make better puddings of their horses then of their 
hogs, which they eate being new made. 
IlaJduyt's Vnuayet, I. 97. 
2. A dish consist iugof flour or other farinaceous 
substance with suet, or milk, eggs, etc., some- 
times enriched with fruit, as raisins, etc., ori- 
ginally boiled in a bag to a moderately hard 
consistence, but now made in many other ways. 
36 han harmed vs two in that 36 cten the puddyng, 
Mortrewes, and other mete, and we no morsel hade ! 
Piers Plowman (B), xiil. 108. 
Then to their supper were they set orderlye, 
With hot buff-puddings, and good apple-pyes. 
ATm-7 diuf Milter of MantjifU (Child's Ballads, VIII. 36). 
When I was a young man, we used to keep strictly to 
my father's rale, "No broth, no ball ; no ball, no beef"; 
and always began dinner with broth. Then we had suet- 
puddings. lulled In the broth with the beef ; and then the 
meat iUeif. Mrs. Oaskell, Cranford, iv. 
3. JV7., same as puddening. Dundee pudding, 
a sailors' dish, commonly called dandyfunk. Indian 
pudding. Sec/ndinn. Pudding pipe-tree. Secjnjw- 
tree. (See also black-pudding (also called blood-pudding), 
cap-pitddiny, hasty-pudding, hog's -pudding, white-pud- 
ding.)^ 
pudding-hag (pud'ing -bag), n. 1. A bag in 
which a pudding is boiled: usually not sewed 
in any way, but a cloth gathered around the 
uncooked pudding and tied with a string. 
About half a yard long, of the breadth of a pudding-bag. 
Letter dated 1628. (ffaret.) 
2. The long-tailed titmouse: same nsfeather- 
/>/Y'. [Norfolk, Eng.] 
pudding-cloth (pud'ing-klfith), M. The cloth 
in which a pudding is boiled, 
pudding-faced (pud'ing-fast), n. Having a fat, 
round, smooth face; having a face suggestive 
of a pndding. 
Stupid, puddimr faced as he looks and Is, there Is still a 
vulpine astuclty In him. Carlyle, Caglloatro. 
pudding-fish (pud'ing-fish), 11. A laliri>id fish 
of West Indian waters, I'lttti/gloMiix riidin/iix. 
the bluefish or doncella. 
pudding-grass (pud'ing-grftfi), . The penny- 
ruval, S/rntlin 1'uli -1/111111: so called from its use 
in seasoning puddings. Also ptiddrng-htrb. 
[Old ami provincial.] 
puddle 
pudding-head (pi'id'ing-bed). . A dull, stu- 
pid person. 
pudding-headed ipud'ing-hed'ed), <i. Dull: 
stupid. [Colloq.] 
A purse-proud, pudding-headed, fat-gutted, lean-brained 
Southron. Scott, Fortunes of Nigel, zzvL 
pudding-heartt (pud'ing-hart), n. A rowan). 
[Kare.J 
Go, pudding-heart ! 
Take thy huge olfal and white liver hence. 
Sir //. Taylor, Ph. van Arterelde, II., III. 1. (Datiet.) 
pudding-houset(pud'ing-hous),ii. The paunch; 
belly. [Slang.] 
He . . . tbrnsthimdownehlsptuMuM-Aofuentagobbe. 
Nathe, Lenten Stnffe (Harl. Misc., VI. 186). (Cartel.) 
pudding-pie (pud'ing-pi), n. A pudding with 
meat baked in it. 
Three well larded puddinii-pi/ei he hath at one time put 
to foyle. John Taylor, Works (1880). (Xaret.) 
Some cried the Covenant, Instead 
Of pudding-piei and gingerbread. 
S. Butler, Hudlhras, I. II. Mil. 
pudding-prickt, . A skewer used to fasten a 
pudding-bag. 
His mighty arguments prove not the value of a poding- 
prick. 
Tyndale, Ans. to Sir T. More, etc. (Parker Soc., 1850). 
Ip. Ml. 
pudding-sleeve (piid'ing-slev), M. A large, 
loose sleeve; especially, in England, a sleeve 
of the black gown of a 'clergyman. 
He sees, yet hardly can Iwlleve, 
About each arm a pudding-sleeve ; 
His waistcoat to a cassock grew. 
' Baucis and Philemon. 
pudding-Stone (piid'ing-ston), ii. A rock made 
up of rounded and water-worn debris of other 
rocks, a considerable proportion of the pieces 
being large enough to be called pebbles or 
cobbles. Detrital rocks made up of finer materials are 
called sandstones, slmles,or mudstones. Puddinff-stone is 
a synonym of conylamerate-. See cut under conglomerate. 
pudding-time (pud'ing-tim), . 1. The time 
for pudding that is, dinner-time. 2f. The 
nick of time ; critical time. 
I came In season as they say, in pudding titne. tem- 
pore vuni. Withals' Dictionarie (ed. 1608X p. Ji. (fiares. ) 
But Mars, that still protecU the stout, 
In pudding-time came to his aid. 
S. Butler, Hudlhras, I. il. 864. 
When fieorge in pudding-time came o'er, 
And moderate men looked big, sir, 
My principles I changed once more, 
And so became a Whig, sir. Vicar of Bray. 
pudding-tobaccot (pud'ing-to-l>ak5), t. To- 
bacco made up in rolls like puddings. 
Never kneels but to pledge healths, nor prays but for a 
pipe of pudding-tobacco. B. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, ii. 1. 
pudding-wife (pud'ing-wif), M. A labroid fish, 
Pla tyglosnus rndiatiis, with a long body, large 
scales, and the color bluish or bronze, with 
wavy sky-blue spots, a stripe from snout to 
nape, and blue stripes in the fins. It occurs 
from the Florida Keys to Brazil. 
puddingy (pud'ing-i), . [< pudding + -y 1 .] 
Resembling or suggest i ve of a pudding. [Col- 
loq.] 
A limpness and roundness of limb which give the form 
a puddingy appearance. 
Mayhew, London Labour and London Poor, III. OT>. 
puddle 1 (pud'l), n. [Early mod. E. atoopuddet ; 
< ME. podel, a pool ; origin obscure. Cf. AS. 
piidd (rare), a ditch or furrow (glossed by L. 
sulcus) ; E. dial, pudge, a ditch. The W. pirdel, 
a puddle, is prob. < E.] 1. A small pool of 
water, especially of dirty rain-water; a muddy 
plash. 
'HUT'S not a Puddle (though It strangely stink) 
But dry they draw 't, Sea-Water 's dainty 1 n ink. 
Sylvester, tr. of 1m Bartas's Weeks, IL, The Schisme. 
The Lucrfne lake is but a puddle In comparison of what 
It once was, Its springs having lieen sunk in an earth- 
quake. Atlitim, Remarks on Italy (ed. Bonn), I. 4S2. 
2. Clay to which a little water lias been added 
and which has then been tempered, so as to make 
it homogeneous and increase its plasticity. It 
is used in a great variety of wavs when a water- 
tight stopping is required. It is also culled 
puddle 1 (pud'l), r. ; pret. and pp. puddled . ppr. 
/iinldliiii/. [Early mod. E. also poodle ; appar. 
from the noun, but proli. in part a var. of jxiil- 
dle* and puddrr in similar senses. In 1 he tech- 
nical sense, def. 3, the verb has been adopted 
into other tongues (}'. i>mlillrr, etc.).] I. trims. 
1. To make foul or muddy; stir up the mud or 
M-ditiient in; hence, to befoul in a figurative 
sen-r. 
. linth piddled his clear spirit. 
.V/i.l*., Otbell... Ill 4. \f.'. 
