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English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- enPR: pŭk, IPA(key): /pʌk/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (Northern England, Ireland) IPA(key): /pʊk/
- Rhymes: -ʌk
Etymology 1
[edit]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.
Noun
[edit]puck (plural pucks)
- (now rare) A mischievous or hostile spirit. [from 10th c.]
- 2017, Ronald Hutton, The Witch, Yale University Press, published 2018, page 232:
- 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.
Synonyms
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[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]From or influenced by Irish poc (“stroke in hurling, bag”). Compare poke (1861).
Verb
[edit]puck (third-person singular simple present pucks, present participle pucking, simple past and past participle pucked)
Noun
[edit]puck (plural pucks)
- (ice hockey) A hard rubber disc; any other flat disc meant to be hit across a flat surface in a game. [from 19th c.]
- 1886 February 28, Boston Daily Globe, page 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.
- 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 184:
- 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.
- (chiefly Canada) An object shaped like a puck. [from 20th c.]
- 2004, Art Directors Annual, volume 83, Rotovision, page 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.
- (computing) A pointing device with a crosshair. [from 20th c.]
- (hurling, camogie) A penalty shot.
Derived terms
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Descendants
[edit]Translations
[edit]hockey puck — see hockey puck
See also
[edit]Hockey puck on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Etymology 3
[edit]From the Irish poc (“male adult goat, billy goat”). Doublet of buck.
Noun
[edit]puck (plural pucks)
Etymology 4
[edit]Noun
[edit]puck (plural pucks)
- (trampoline, gymnastics) A body position between the pike and tuck positions, with knees slightly bent and folded in; open tuck.
- 2013, The Sports Book: The Sports, the Rules, the Tactics, the Techniques[1]:
- The puck position is allowed during competitions when performing multi-twisting multiple somersaults.
Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]puck c
- (ice hockey) a puck
- Synonym: (colloquial) trissa
Declension
[edit]Declension of puck | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | puck | pucken | puckar | puckarna |
Genitive | pucks | puckens | puckars | puckarnas |
Idioms
[edit]All are colloquial.
- lugna puckar (“calm, under control”, literally “calm pucks”)
- raka puckar (“direct, blunt (compare English straight shooter)”, literally “straight pucks”)
- snabba puckar (“fast-paced”, literally “quick pucks”)
References
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