puck
English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English puke, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English pūca (“goblin, demon”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *pūkô (“a goblin, spook”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *(s)pāug(')- (“brilliance, spectre”). Cognate with Old Norse púki (“devil”) (dialectal Swedish puke), Middle Low German spōk, spūk (“apparition, ghost”), German Spuk (“a haunting”). More at spook.
Noun
puck (plural pucks)
- (now rare) A mischievous or hostile spirit. [from 10th c.]
- 2017, Ronald Hutton, The Witch, Yale University Press 2018, p. 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.
- 2017, Ronald Hutton, The Witch, Yale University Press 2018, p. 232:
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Etymology 2
From or influenced by (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Irish poc (“stroke in hurling, bag”). Compare poke (1861).
Verb
puck (third-person singular simple present pucks, present participle pucking, simple past and past participle pucked)
Noun
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, 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.
- 1886, Boston Daily Globe (28 February), p 2:
- (chiefly Canada) An object shaped like a puck. [from 20th c.]
- 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.
- 2004, Art Directors Annual, v 83, Rotovision, p 142:
- (computing) A pointing device with a crosshair. [from 20th c.]
- (hurling, camogie) A penalty shot.
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See also
Hockey puck on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Swedish
Noun
puck c
Declension
Declension of puck | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | puck | pucken | puckar | puckarna |
Genitive | pucks | puckens | puckars | puckarnas |
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