On Sunday 24 March 2002 19:41, Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T. wrote: > I watch a cooking progam from Enland on the FoodChannel. The Star is > Jammie Oliver and the show is called "The Naked Chef" the title is > supposed to mean getting to the bare essentials of food. > > He uses a slang tern for great (as in Taste great) pucker. Examaple > the dish is really pucker.
In that context, "pucker" is often used by those at the East End of London as a sort of regional slang. It does come from the Indian pukkah as someone suggested. Jamie Oliver is generally reckoned in England to be a jumped-up juvenile twerp that is trying to effect trappings of the street culture (generally the yob culture). Mind you he's a reasonable cook (I wouldn't describe him as a chef). > > In the US the same word has a different meaning as in Pucker up and > Kiss. That's exactly what it means in Oxford English, and you can find it in the Oxford English Dictionary with that meaning. -- Graham
