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puckle

puckle noun: the devil; Satan.

Noun

puckle (plural puckles)

  1. (obsolete) The devil; Satan.
  2. (dialectal) A fairy; elf; sprite.

Proper noun capitalized: Puckle

Puckle

  1. A surname.

Forms of puckle

pluralpuckles

Origin of puckle

From Middle English *poukel, *pukel, from Old English pūcel (“a goblin, demon, a mischievous spirit”), diminutive of pūca (“demon, goblin, imp”), equivalent to puck + -le. Cognate with Danish pokker (“devil, deuce”). More at puck.

Words formed from puckle

Phrases with puckle

Questions about puckle

What does puckle mean?
Puckle means the devil; Satan.
What part of speech is puckle?
Puckle can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of puckle?
The plural of puckle is puckles.

Words near puckle in the dictionary

  1. Puckian
  2. pucking
  3. puckish
  4. puckishly
  5. puckishness
  6. puckle
  7. Puckle gun
  8. Puckle guns
  9. Puckle's gun
  10. Puckle's guns
  11. Pucklechurch

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Adapted from Wiktionary: puckle (page history and authors); Puckle (page history and authors). 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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