Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A hard rubber disk used in ice hockey.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A fairy; elf; sprite.
- n. Specifically [capitalized] A fairy of high repute. who was also known by the names of Robin Goodfellow and Friar Rush. His character and attributes are depicted in Shakspere's “Midsummer Night's Dream.” He was the chief of the domestic tribe of fairies, or brownies as they are called in Scotland.
- n. The devil; Satan.
- n. A disk of rubber used in place of a ball in hockey.
Wiktionary
- n. ice hockey A hard hard rubber disc; any other flat disc meant to be hit across a flat surface in a game.
- n. An object shaped like a puck.
- n. computing A pointing device with a crosshair.
- n. A mischievous spirit.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Mediæval Myth.) A celebrated fairy, “the merry wanderer of the night;” -- called also
Robin Goodfellow ,Friar Rush ,Pug , etc. - n. (Zoöl.), Prov. Eng. The goatsucker.
- n. A disk of vulcanized rubber used in the game of hockey, as the object to be driven through the goals.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a mischievous sprite of English folklore
- n. a vulcanized rubber disk 3 inches in diameter that is used instead of a ball in ice hockey
Etymologies
- From Middle English puke, from Old English pūca ("goblin, demon"), from Proto-Germanic *pūkô (“a goblin, spook”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pāug(')- (“brilliance, spectre”). Cognate with Old Norse pūki (dialectal Swedish puke, "devil"), Middle Low German spōk, spūk ("apparition, ghost"), German Spuk ("a haunting"). More at spook. (Wiktionary)
- Perhaps from dialectal puck, to strike. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“` ` When you have a little hot streak, it seems like the puck is always coming to you, '' Kopitar said.”
“Instead of firing away like the puck is a hand grenade, make the right play and take the hit.”
“` ` The one that stops the puck is ahead of the other one, '' he said.”
“I just move my hand and, oh, the puck is there," Bryzgalov said.”
USATODAY.com - Bryzgalov, Ducks record third straight shutout, 3-0 over Avs
“At least one forechecker, if not two, must be required in the defensive zone as long as the puck is there.”
USATODAY.com - Hall of Fame goalie Fuhr misses wide-open games
“It's about skating to where the puck is going to be.”
“It will go right up until the first puck is dropped next season.”
“The puck is sent skidding around the ice by hitting it with sticks.”
“Now, its taken for granted the puck is going hit some part of the fearless, athletic, and enormous monster in the net.”
“Though he's slightly built and really needs to add upper body strength, de Haan runs the PP impeccably with great decisions in puck distribution and he's also a smooth skater and very intelligent at both ends.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘puck’.
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supernatural creatures according to M...
Turned this up on etymonline.com (link). It's amazing.
Hobbit (n.)
1937, coined in the fantasy tales of J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973).
On a blank leaf I scrawled: 'In a hole...ghost, boggle, bloody-bones, spirit, demon, ignis fatuus, brownie, bugbear, black dog, specter, shellycoat, scarecrow and 186 more...
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Mythical Beings
mermaid, manticore, fairy, brownie, dwarf, elf, leprechaun, selkie, gremlin, puck, pixie, genie and 97 more...
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Hockey
As the playoffs are on, some Hockey terms, and likely some Canadianisms in here.
face off, playoff beard, playoff, faceoff, bodycheck, hipcheck, icing, pass, facemask, stick, puck, Peter Puck and 182 more...
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Oh, Puck
Thou speak'st aright;
I am that merry wanderer of the night.
I jest to Oberon and make him smile....
-- A Midsummer Night's Dream
Famous sidekicks, real and imaginary...woodstock, robin, ron weasley, ed mcmahon, sancho panza, puck, doctor watson, pokey, rocket j. squirrel, natasha fatale, archie goodwin, baba looey and 93 more...
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The Devil and His Imps
Names of 'the Devil himself, the devils his "flaming ministers", household goblins, rural demons, bogles, sprites, and fairies of all kinds' mentioned in Charles P.G. Scott's 'The Devil and His Imp...
devil, devilet, deviling, dablet, black angel, black man, black bear, black bull, black dog, bogle, bogie, boggard and 128 more...
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spicolli's Words
terrapin, ravenous, fuck, sepulchral, garlic, suss, queer, curmudgeon, foodie, intricate, omphalos, subversion and 534 more...
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Actual and Spectulative Sburb Classes
A list of all known Heroic Classes available to players of the game Sburb within the Homestuck universe, as well as any other words I can think of which would theoretically adhere to the known guid...
heir, seer, knight, witch, maid, page, thief, mage, rogue, sylph, prince, bard and 116 more...
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Fictional beasties
elf, gnome, dwarf, sprite, troll, fairy, nymph, imp, brownie, sasquatch, yeti, wookiee and 574 more...
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Words I like as names
It's exactly what it sounds like. And yeah, for real people as much as characters. Big surprise.
corbeau, alameda, hanabi, milk, promise, edelweiss, delphinium, jubilate, jubilance, jocoserious, arrow, angeles and 141 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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Flanges &c
Amusingly-named mechanical and electrical parts to be found in a particular warehouse in Newfoundland
nut, relief valve, cotter, shaft, bushing (inner bo..., sleeve, bushing (link), thrust washer, slip yoke, bushing (swing post), half pump coupling, main teledyne spool and 344 more...
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some of my favorites
some of my favorite words
tintinnabulation, lascivious, ontology, chthonic, eldritch, squamous, verity, specificity, euphony, cacophony, therianthrope, morbidity and 157 more...
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Place Names Of Distinction
These are all names of real places. The focus is on towns, mountains, rivers etc. but I will consider streets. Streets are even wackier so if there's enough good'uns ... yep, another list :-)
malino, yoshkar-ola, cae onan, krakatoa, gulfoss, perusia, camooweal, manangatang, utopia, bastardo, condom, zumstein and 324 more...
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many moons ago...
luna, phobos, deimos, metis, adrastea, amalthea, thebe, io, europa, ganymede, callisto, themisto and 140 more...
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figments
denizens of the imagination (non-human, mostly).
an offshoot of animaliabandersnatch, gnome, fairy, elf, troll, ent, hobbit, dwarf, orc, ogre, gollum, basilisk and 78 more...
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Efficient phonemes
Sets of monosyllabic words which use all five vowels
bag, beg, big, bog, bug, pack, peck, pick, pock, puck, bad, bed and 3 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for puck.
bilby A town in Poland near Gdansk. Jan 1, 2008
reesetee Sidekick of Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Dec 13, 2007