Definitions for puck
pʌkpuck

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Puck, Robin Goodfellownoun

   a mischievous sprite of English folklore

2. puck, hockey pucknoun

   a vulcanized rubber disk 3 inches in diameter that is used instead of a ball in ice hockey

WiktionaryRate this definition:3.7 / 3 votes

1. Pucknoun

   a mischievous sprite in Celtic mythology and English folklore.

2. Pucknoun

   One of the satellites of the planet Uranus

3. Etymology: From puke, from puca, from pūkô, from (s)pāug(')-. Cognate with púki, spok, spuk, Spuk. More at spook.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Pucknoun

   perhaps the same with pug. Some sprite among the fairies, common in romances.

   O gentle puck, take this transformed scalp
   From off the head of this Athenian swain. William Shakespeare.

   Turn your cloaks,
   Quoth he, for puck is busy in these oaks,
   And this is fairy ground. Corbet.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. puck

   A puck is a flat, cylindrical piece of rubber or other hard material that is used in various sports, such as ice hockey or air hockey, as an object that players aim to hit into the opponent's goal. In field hockey, similar object made of plastic or leather is used. The shape, size, and weight of a puck can vary depending on the sport.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Pucknoun

   a celebrated fairy, "the merry wanderer of the night;" -- called also Robin Goodfellow, Friar Rush, Pug, etc

2. Pucknoun

   the goatsucker

3. Etymology: [OE. pouke; cf. OSw. puke, Icel. pki an evil demon, W. pwca a hobgoblin. Cf. Poker a bugbear, Pug.]

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1. Puck

   In English folklore, Puck is a mythological Fairy or mischievous nature sprite. Puck is also a generalised personification of land spirits. In more recent times, the figure of Robin Goodfellow is identified as a puck. The Old English puca is a kind of half-tamed woodland sprite, leading folk astray with echoes and lights in nighttime woodlands, or coming into the farmstead and souring milk in the churn. Since, if you "speak of the Devil" he will appear, Puck's euphemistic "disguised" name is "Robin Goodfellow" or "Hobgoblin", in which "Hob" may substitute for "Rob" or may simply refer to the "goblin of the hearth" or hob. The name Robin is Middle English in origin, deriving from Old French Robin, the pet form for the name Robert. The earliest reference to "Robin Goodfellow" cited by the Oxford English Dictionary is from 1531. After Meyerbeer's successful opera Robert le Diable, neo-medievalists and occultists began to apply the name Robin Goodfellow to the Devil, with appropriately extravagant imagery.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Puck

   puk, n. a goblin or mischievous sprite: a merry fairy in Midsummer Night's Dream.—adj. Puck′ish. [M. E. pouke—Celt., as Ir. puca, W. pwca, bwg; conn. with Ice. púki. Cf. Pug, Bug.]

The Nuttall EncyclopediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Puck

   a tricky, mischievous fairy, identified with Robin Goodfellow, and sometimes confounded with a house spirit, propitiated by kind words and the liberty of the cream-bowl.

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1. PUCK

   What does PUCK stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the PUCK acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. PUCK

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Puck is ranked #60790 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Puck surname appeared 331 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Puck.
   
   93.9% or 311 total occurrences were White.
   1.8% or 6 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   1.8% or 6 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   1.5% or 5 total occurrences were Black.

Matched Categories

1. • Disk
   • Fairy

How to pronounce puck?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say puck in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of puck in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of puck in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of puck in a Sentence

1. Connor Hellebuyck:

   Lucky pinballs, the puck just bounced and ended up right on their tape. Tough to eat that one, but I thought we were the better team. If we keep fighting here, its not over.

2. Travis Green:

   That was a good hockey game, not a lot of mistakes by our group. I thought we managed the puck well.

3. Jason Dickinson:

   Even if we have a couple of bad shifts, a couple of bad plays or a puck goes in our net, it seems like we respond well, and we keep trying to push.

4. Wayne Gretzky:

   I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.

5. Clayton Keller:

   It was kind of a weird play where everyone kind of didn’t know where the puck was and I kind of just saw it last second, (Nick) Schmaltz makes a great play and I just tried to shoot through a screen. It was good to see that one go in.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=puck
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Puck
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=puck
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/puck
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=puck
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=puck
8. ^ The Nuttall Encyclopedia
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/12342/pg12342-images.html#Puck
9. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html