puck

See also Puck

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: pŭk, IPA: /pʌk/, SAMPA: /pVk/
• Rhymes: -ʌk

Etymology 1

1886, from verb puck (“to hit or strike something”). Compare poke (1861), Irish poc (“stroke in hurling, bag”)

Noun

puck (plural pucks)

1. A hard hard rubber disc used in ice hockey; any other flat disc meant to be hit across a flat surface in a game.
   • 1886, Boston Daily Globe (28 February), p 2:

     In hockey a flat piece of rubber, say four inches long by three wide and about an inch thick, called a ‘puck’, is used.

2. (chiefly Canada) An object shaped like a puck.
   • 2004, Art Directors Annual, v 83, Rotovision, p 142:

     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.

3. (computing) A pointing device with a crosshair.

Derived terms

Terms derived from puck

hockey puck puck bunny puck carrier puck chaser puck chasing

puck crown puck-dribbling puck-handler puck-handling puck palace

puck-pusher puck sense puck-shy puckster rag the puck

Translations

disk used in hockey

Arabic: قرص لعبة الهوكي (ar) (qurS lú3bat al-huuki) m., قرص (ar) (qurS) m. (disk) Chinese: Mandarin: 冰球 (cmn) (bīngqiú) Crimean Tatar: şayba Czech: puk m., kotouč m., hrací kotouč m., touš m. Dutch: puck (nl) m. Finnish: kiekko, lätkä (slang) French: palet (fr) m., galet (fr) m., rondelle (fr) f. German: Eishockeyscheibe (de) f., Scheibe (de) f. Greek: σφαίρα (el) (sphaíra) f.

Hungarian: korong (hu), jégkorong (hu) Italian: disco di gomma m. Japanese: パック (ja) (pakku) Korean: 퍽 (ko) (peok), 장난 좋아하는 요정 (ko) (jangnan joh-ahaneun yojeong) Macedonian: пак (mk) (pak) m. Portuguese: disco de hóquei m. Russian: шайба (ru) (šáiba) f. Serbian: pločica f. Spanish: disco de goma (es) m., disco (es) m. Swedish: puck (sv) c.

See also

• Hockey_puck on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Hockey_puck

Etymology 2

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.

Noun

puck (plural pucks)

1. A mischievous spirit.

Derived terms

• puckish

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Swedish

Noun

puck c.

1. puck

Declension

Declension of puck

	singular		plural
Common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	puck	pucken	puckar	puckarna
genitive	pucks	puckens	puckars	puckarnas