puck
/pʌk/
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Ireland/pʊk/
puck noun: a mischievous or hostile spirit.
Noun (1)
puck (plural pucks)
- A mischievous or hostile spirit.
- 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.2017, Ronald Hutton, The Witch, Yale University Press, published 2018, page 232
- The mischievous fairy-like creature from English folklore, like Puck from Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream".
Verb
puck (third-person singular simple present pucks, present participle pucking, simple past and past participle pucked)
Noun (2)
puck (plural pucks)
- 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.1886 February 28, Boston Daily Globe, page 2
- The game itself, though played by men, was probably meant to enact a mediation of the opposites of male and female, with a circular puck being the feminine symbol and the phallic hockey stick being the masculine symbol.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 184
- An object shaped like a puck.
- 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.2004, Art Directors Annual, volume 83, Rotovision, page 142
- A pointing device with a crosshair.
- A penalty shot.
Noun (3)
puck (plural pucks)
Noun (4)
puck (plural pucks)
Proper noun capitalized: Puck
Puck
- A mischievous sprite in Celtic mythology and English folklore.
- Synonyms:
- Robin Goodfellow
- One of the satellites of the planet Uranus.
puck meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Bengali
puck in Hindi
- पक करें
puck in Tamil
- சீடை
puck in Bengali
- আইস হকির বল, পাক, দুষ্টু পরী
More languagesFewer languages
- puck in Telugu
- పక్, పుక్
- puck in Kannada
- ಕಿಡಿಗೇಡಿ ದೆವ್ವ
- puck in Punjabi
- ਪੁੱਕ
- puck in Gujarati
- પક
Examples of puck in a sentence
- There's a scramble in front of the net as the forwards are hacking at the bouncing puck.
- The puck was momentarily loose right in front of the net.
- If the Bruins ice the puck, the faceoff will be in their own zone.
Synonyms of puck
Forms of puck
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | pucks |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | pucks |
| present participle | pucking |
| past participle | pucked |
| past | pucked |
Origin of puck
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 the Irish poc (“male adult goat, billy goat”). Doublet of buck.
Words formed from puck
- Puckian
- puckish
- Pucklike
- hockey puck
- ice hockey puck
- puck bunny
- puck carrier
- puck chaser
- puck chasing
- puck crown
- puck-dribbling
- puck-handler
- puckhandler
- puck-handling
- puckle
- puck palace
- puck-pusher
- puck scramble
- puck sense
- puck-shy
- puckster
- puckstopper
- puckstopping
- rag the puck
- shuffleboard puck
- shufflepuck
- side puck
- urinal puck
- where the puck is heading
- where the puck is going
Phrases with puck
Words that rhyme with puck
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Questions about puck
- What does puck mean?
- Puck means a mischievous or hostile spirit.
- What is puck in Hindi?
- Puck in Hindi is पक करें. See Puck meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is puck?
- Puck can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce puck?
- Puck is pronounced /pʌk/.
- What is the plural of puck?
- The plural of puck is pucks.
Words near puck in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: puck (page history and authors); Puck (page history and authors); puck (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); puck (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); puck (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); puck (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); puck (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); puck (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); puck (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); puck (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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