puckfist

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments (4)  · 
“
give me leave to incounter this puckfist,[140] and if I doe not make him cry Peccavi say Dicke Bowyer's a powdered Mackrell Pet_.

View all »
Definitions (3)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (2)

  1. A niggardly or close-fisted person. O, they are pinching puckfists! B. Jonson, New Inn, iii. 1. Petrarch was a dunce, Dante a jig-maker, Sanazzar a goose, and Ariosto a puck-fist to me! Ford, Love's Sacrifice, ii. 1. For those are pinching puckfoists, and suspicious. Fletcher (and another), Love's Pilgrimage, i. 1.
  2. In botany, a puffball.

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913 (1)

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

Examples (1)

 

Tags

puckfist hasn't been tagged yet.

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 14 times.

stop updating
On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Etymologies (1)

Toggle Century etymologies Century Dictionary (1)

  1. Also puckfoist; cf. Low German pukfust, a fist doubled up, from pukken, strike, poke, + fust, fist.
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »

If you'd like to prod us on getting a pronunciation for this word, sign in (or sign up) and let us know.

Charts

We are still working on calculating this word's frequency.

Recently looked up

madame · flew · acclaimed · brazenness · senses

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

Der dicke Dachdecker deckte dir dein Dach, drum dank dem dicken Dachdecker, dass der dicke Dachdecker dir dein Dach deckte. · weitläufig · und wenn sie nicht gestorben sind, so leben sie noch heute · redescheu · selbstverständlich