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Puck
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- 1 A mischievous sprite in Celtic mythology and English folklore.
- 2 One of the satellites of the planet Uranus.
- 1 A mischievous or hostile spirit. archaic
"William Tyndale allotted this character a role, of leading nocturnal travellers astray as the puck had been said to do since Anglo-Saxon times and the goblin since the later medieval period."
- 2 A hard rubber disc; any other flat disc meant to be hit across a flat surface in a game.
"In hockey a flat piece of rubber, say four inches long by three wide and about an inch thick, called a ‘puck’, is used."
- 3 billy goat Ireland
- 4 A body position between the pike and tuck positions, with knees slightly bent and folded in; open tuck.
"The puck position is allowed during competitions when performing multi-twisting multiple somersaults."
- 5 a vulcanized rubber disk 3 inches in diameter that is used instead of a ball in ice hockey wordnet
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- 6 The mischievous fairy-like creature from English folklore, like Puck from Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream".
- 7 An object shaped like a puck. Canada
"He reaches into the urinal and picks up the puck. He then walk over to the sink and replaces a bar of soap with the urinal puck."
- 8 a mischievous sprite of English folklore wordnet
- 9 A pointing device with a crosshair.
- 10 A penalty shot.
- 1 To hit, strike. Ireland
Etymology
From Middle English pouke, from Old English pūca (“goblin, demon”), from Proto-West Germanic *pūkō, from Proto-Germanic *pūkô (“a goblin, spook”), of uncertain origin. Cognate with Old Norse púki (“devil”) (dialectal Swedish puke). Doublet of pooka.
From or influenced by Irish poc (“stroke in hurling, bag”). Compare poke (1861).
From or influenced by Irish poc (“stroke in hurling, bag”). Compare poke (1861).
From the Irish poc (“male adult goat, billy goat”). Doublet of buck.
Blend of pike + tuck.
From puck (“mischievous spirit”), from Middle English pouke, from Old English pūca (“goblin, demon”), from Proto-Germanic *pūkô (“a goblin, spook”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pāug(')- (“brilliance, spectre”). Cognate with Icelandic púki, dialectal Swedish puke (“devil”), Middle Low German spūk (“apparition, ghost”), German Spuk (“a haunting”). More at spook.
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