Puck"ball` (?), n. [Puck + ball.] A puffball.
Puck"er (?), v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Puckered (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Puckering.] [From Poke a pocket, small bag.] To gather into small folds
or wrinkles; to contract into ridges and furrows; to corrugate; --
often with up; as, to pucker up the mouth. "His skin [was] puckered up
in wrinkles." Spectator.
Puck"er, n. 1. A fold; a wrinkle; a collection of folds.
2. A state of perplexity or anxiety; confusion; bother; agitation.
[Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U. S.]
Puck"er*er, n. One who, or that which, puckers.
Puck"er*y (?), a. 1. Producing, or tending to produce, a pucker; as, a
puckery taste. Lowell.
2. Inclined to become puckered or wrinkled; full of puckers or
wrinkles.
Puck"fist` (?), n. A puffball.
Puck"ish, a. [From Puck.] Resembling Puck; merry; mischievous. "Puckish
freaks." J. R. Green.
Pu"cras (?), n. [From a native name in India.] (Zoˆl.) See Koklass.
Pud (?), n. Same as Pood.
Pud (?), n. The hand; the first. [Colloq.] Lamb.
Pud"den*ing (?), n. [Probably fr. pudden, for pudding, in allusion to
its softness.] (Naut.) (a) A quantity of rope-yarn, or the like,
placed, as a fender, on the bow of a boat. (b) A bunch of soft material
to prevent chafing between spars, or the like.
Pud"der (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Puddered (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Puddering.] [Cf. Pother.] To make a tumult or bustle; to splash; to
make a pother or fuss; to potter; to meddle.
Puddering in the designs or doings of others.
Barrow.
Others pudder into their food with their broad nebs.
Holland.
Pud"der, v. t. To perplex; to embarrass; to confuse; to bother; as, to
pudder a man. Locke.
Pud"der, n. A pother; a tumult; a confused noise; turmoil; bustle. "All
in a pudder." Milton.
Pud"ding (?), n. [Cf. F. boudin black pudding, sausage, L. botulus,
botellus, a sausage, G. & Sw. pudding pudding, Dan. podding, pudding,
LG. puddig thick, stumpy, W. poten, potten, also E. pod, pout, v.] 1. A
species of food of a soft or moderately hard consistence, variously
made, but often a compound of flour or meal, with milk and eggs, etc.
And solid pudding against empty praise.
Pope.